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" All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us. "
Comedy
Big
Mirror
" Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey. "
Notion
Go
Journey
" Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories? "
Able
Film
Imagine
" 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. "
Voice
Filmmaking
Find
" Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film. "
Most
You
Film
" Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire. "
Satire
Beyond
Hollywood
" I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics. "
Olympics
Know
Against
" 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. "
World
Government
Together
" 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. "
Creative
Control
Collaboration
" 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. "
Culture
Worry
Lost
" In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll. "
He
Rock And Roll
Rock
" In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture. "
Be Careful
Culture
Way
" I support all Australian films. "
Support
Films
Australian
" It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options? "
Why
Creative
Conservative
" It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen. "
American
Because
Culture
" It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky. "
Born
Me
Lucky
" Making your first feature film is actually impossible. "
First
Impossible
Making
" Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. "
Movies
Music
Arts
" Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make. "
Movies
Insane
Make
" My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. "
Life
Stupidity
Director
" 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. "
Now
Me
Office
" So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long. "
Protect
Long
Culture
" 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. "
American
Tell
Stories
" The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire. "
Journey
First
Beyond
" 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. "
You
Box
Devil
" 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. "
Time
See
Person
" There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them. "
Been
Film
Industry
" 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
Three
Together
" We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do. "
American
Hollywood
Off
" 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. "
Leadership
Business
Live
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