So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity..

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much..

Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasi….

I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue a….

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised..

Sixty-five days principle photography, five-day weeks, which is the only way I'll work. With my cinematographer Russell Boyd, we take as much time as….

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas whic….

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'.

With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and the risk of keepin….

I love a chance to shoot real locations, because in films in the earlier days before people traveled as much, it was exotic to see a film set in Swit….

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….

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

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 ….

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

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..

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..

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, ….

Music stops you from thinking..

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….

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

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