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.

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

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.

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.

When you know what you're passionate about and what you want to do, just go for it and own it.

It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as long as you don't stop in the middle and go down where you have gone this far.