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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.

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.

It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

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.

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

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

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

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 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.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

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