It's so easy to say "evil Nazi monsters," but as soon as we do that, we take away the fact that it was individuals committing individual acts of murd…

- Cate Shortland

The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the tough…

- Cate Shortland

I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in…

- Cate Shortland

Kathryn Bigelow is a really good example of somebody that has maintained her truth and she makes the films she wants to make and she hasn't let other…

- Cate Shortland

I'm a really judgmental person, and it just dumbs everything down. It doesn't create any room for interrogation or investigation.

- Cate Shortland

Try and withhold your judgment, because as soon as you think you know something, you're shutting down.

- Cate Shortland

Every film you do, you always look at it and you think, "I could do better," but I'm never going to tell people what I could do better. I think it's …

- Cate Shortland

I feel like I need just to keep trying to make the work for the right reasons. I think part of that is working with really good people, and just tryi…

- Cate Shortland