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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.

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word 'industry' is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

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

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

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 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.

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 come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.