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"Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?"
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."

"You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good."

"Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film."

"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."

"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."

"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."

"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff."

"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."
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