All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
I support all Australian films.
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.
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.
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.
There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
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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