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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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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

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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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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.

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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

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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.

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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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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

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