“Making your first feature film is actually impossible.” — Yahoo Serious Quote

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

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.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.

Social media provides a constant platform on which to feature what we deem beautiful, meaningful, and worthy.

I did some feature work, then tried TV. I was always very aware that the only power that you have is the power of options. If the film industry dries up, then you focus on the TV or the books. For me, it was always about what story do I want to tell next?

It was kind of intimidating to make a feature without that much experience.

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.