I'd said no to directing 'Snowtown' a few times and was quite scared of it, but I saw a story there that was worth telling.

The first time I went to Cannes, Gus Van Sant was there in competition with 'Last Days.'

The idea that you're made up of the people that come before you and you somehow have some kind of conscious dialog with your genetics - I think it's really deep and interesting stuff.

As a white Australian, you're surrounded by this vast landscape you know isn't yours, so you're always intimidated. You expect to vanish up a mountain or get eaten by the ground.