In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they shouldn't be tha….

There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think there's a kind of tension,….

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction..

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it..

Studios are attracted by making money, and they're also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few years ….

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space..

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees..

I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've….

I've done a number of things that get categories closed off in a way, so when I read 'The Long Walk' by Slavomir Rawicz and decided to do film, 'I th….

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagg….

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder..

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed.

Music stops you from thinking..

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it….

I became obsessed with the true stuff, and that led to shaping 'The Way Back' screenplay somewhat toward a minimalist style, to avoid free-hanging mo….

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries..

Casting is always critical but in this case, 'The Way Back', I was looking internationally to a degree for an interesting mix of gentlemen, Irish, Po….

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker..

You get very little from the studios anymore, it's all independent. And I think the studio, with the exception of something like The Social Network, ….

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing..

Various studios are still shooting on film with digital grain and the DI negatives, it's not ideal. We should really be all film or all digital. But ….