Russell Crowe

a television show that's going to be there for a decade than a movie that's in and out in four months.

It's better for them.

But the world has opened up hugely in the last 30 years in terms of film production.

And you're taking advantage of homegrown film talent and then building on that with international investment.

Well, that's great.

Australia has a big history, for example, of making films.

Technically, arguably, the first full-length feature film, The True History of the Ned Kelly Gang, might have been called that.

It was like 1906, 1908, something like that.

was made in Australia.

Yeah.

And, you know, all the way through, but, you know, it takes till about the 70s or whatever, then you have this sort of new generation of Australian filmmakers who are actually making stories that reflect the current culture.

And I think that's sort of happening worldwide as well.

When you start going through it, you sort of do realize there's been probably –

much larger percentage than you would expect given the population of the country in terms of people in film, whether it's directors of photography or directors themselves.

Or actors.

Editors and the actors.

It's crazy, man.

It's really kind of nuts.

When I was a young fella making my first movies, you had Mel Gibson and Judy Davis.

But Mel was born in America, so it didn't really count.