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Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.

I guess in Australia every film is sort of an indie film because there are no studios.

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

I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.

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.

It's hard to pinpoint why all of a sudden a group of Australian films will be doing well and why they perhaps are better made than some from the past.