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.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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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.
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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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.
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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.
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There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
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Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
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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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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.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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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.
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