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“Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.”
“I support all Australian films.”
“Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.”
“Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?”
“The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.”
“Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.”
“In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.”
“I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.”
“All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.”
“Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.”
“The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.”
“It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?”
“While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.”
“Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.”
“If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.”
“The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.”
“We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.”
“Making your first feature film is actually impossible.”
“Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.”
“I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.”