Occupation: Film Director Birth: August 21, 1944
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….
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised..
It's spiritual, a man that has a past and regrets, but you can as a director take a shot, and there's something in the eyes and the face, you just ca….
What we love that 'The Way Back' is not subsidized, it's alive and kicking. And if I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell w….
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much..
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 loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries..
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….
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 always thought the editor should cut the film and so I'll come in and look at the movie. Just because that's the only way I can really see the idea….
It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed.
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 ….
In terms of how I work with actors, having worked so heavily on the script I have a very clear idea of the characters; they are reasonably well illus….
Ed Harris seemed to be as a man, it seems, like a Clint Eastwood, this country is one that has produced more than one of this kind of man that's icon….
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'.
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….
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….
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..
You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker..
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….
I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction..