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In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.
It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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.
All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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.
It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.
I support all Australian films.
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.
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.
Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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.
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.
I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.
We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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.
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.