"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."

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"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."

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"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."

Film

"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."

Cultural

"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."

Finance

"I support all Australian films."

Support

"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."

Cultural

"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."

People

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

Finance

"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."

Religion

"Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire."

Hollywood

"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."

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