Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality.... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian-Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story. - Rachel Griffiths
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
- Rachel Griffiths
Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy. - Rachel Griffiths
Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good… - Rachel Griffiths
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good…
I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country. - Rachel Griffiths
I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.
Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somew… - Rachel Griffiths
Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somew…
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind o… - Rachel Griffiths
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind o…
I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision. - Rachel Griffiths
I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance. - Rachel Griffiths
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling. - Rachel Griffiths
I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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