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I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

My long-term plans are just to get as much experience as I can in Australia and try to make my own films.

I want to go back home and make movies in Australia. There's so many stories that we haven't captured yet. In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.

I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.

I'd like to set a story in Australia, but I would need to feel confident my German and U.S. readers, for example, would stay with me.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.