"It is a little bit like coming to a meditation and having a chance just to sit and watch and listen and experience and come away feeling clean and light."

"I’d love to see it as a series again. I’m always optimistic – the first time I came to Melbourne, I said some things that ended up on the internet. And when I got home I got in trouble with Joss."

“I thought, well if I’m running a youth theatre company presenting theatre for children and young people in WA, then why not get to know the young people of WA and do a show written by them, as it is verbatim theatre, and for them?”

"Some people see what they perceive to be a glamorous decade with retrospective chic, retrospective charm, but any simple reading of that time, whether it’s of it being stylish and libertine, or repressive and sordid, is too simple."

"I think when one of your first gestures is created by an act like The Avalanches you know you're going to get stylistic collisions. They were among our first collaborators and they very much encouraged that."

"It almost became this cautionary tale, on forcing other people into doing something, and the loss of innocence that comes with."

"I have this scene where I’m screaming at Caiaphas and I told them ‘You have to hold me back or I’m gonna tear his face off’. They said they didn’t want to hurt me, so I called them pussies and then they really fucking hurt me."

"We got really ruthless with our video cameras. We did a lot of things that you don’t want to do to your cameras: strapping them to the side of wheels, rolling over them accidentally, placing them on a little floatie and pushing them out on the water."

"Even in our working relationship I can feel like I have these great ideas and he doesn’t appreciate them because he doesn’t believe in me. And he has great ideas but I think he’s overbearing and it’s his idea or nobody’s idea... in a certain way."

"Brandon trusted me, but he also was aware that I wasn’t making a puff-piece. And it was difficult because I knew that, to make a good film, I had to betray him."

"Anyone can jump up and have a go – anyone can play with us. Members of the community can jump up and have a go, and there is a wider community of artists who come and join us sometimes."

"It is easily the best play anyone has written in the last forty years, and it may even be..."

There are a lot of innovative short films coming out of Australia and I routinely include them as part of my program at SXSW.

"People can make huge mistakes but if they can find a way back from that, it’s something I respect very much and something I really like playing."

"You don’t ever really expect to be working on stuff like that, when do you think that Doctor Who would be running around on Sydney buildings? You don’t expect that to happen, but it does, and it’s pretty kitsch and it’ll be fun.”