It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it..

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. Studios no longer do this for a large per….

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know..

Hollywood is no longer the top. I love going to the cinema. I've always adored the idea of being in great, epic films. But they just don't really exi….

I’ve never done a film for the money.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way..

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing..

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film..

I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it..

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations..

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure concei….

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia..

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know ab….

Usually, I have in mind what I want to do. I shoot pretty economically, so I'm not shooting tons of stuff that I could change, all that much. I'll cu….

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood….

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry..

If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do not intend to make very broad films..

When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what….

The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where y….

With a director it's all about the work; I'd work with a great director over - you know, I'm not the kind of actor who that doesn't go, 'I want to pl….

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot..