We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.

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

Australian kids could then grow up and love their own culture and not have to love Hollywood or Disneyland culture.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

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.