"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."

"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."

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

"Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film."

"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him."

"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning."

"Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else."

"In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar."