[on Mad Max] Like many of my young colleages I stopped making money in 1978 to work a shoe-string movie project titled Mad Max. At the end of the main shoot I offered a charity deal to Byron Kennedy to screen eight hours of rushes in my small film editing facility. I was so amazed by the footage and the performances I saw through the projection port that I offered to cut it for almost nothing. And guess what? Byron accepted! Just like the Toecutter said - 'This is a threshold moment, Johnny'.
