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

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

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

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'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

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