Occupation: Film Director Birth: April 29, 1950
So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come t….
Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know….
Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our frien….
Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up o….
Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west c….
The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from the….
You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsib….
A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many c….
After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but al….
People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive….
I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence..
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature..