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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."
"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."
"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way."
"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
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"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."
"The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say."
"We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs."
"The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen."
"We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important."
"We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally."
"All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year."
"Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment."
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