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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.

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

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.

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

I tend to not think about the kind of movie things I want to be doing, because I've worked in all sorts of different places, and I've spent all sorts of time in England, and I'd still do things in Australia and in America.

I've been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.

I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

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.