Film Quotes

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.

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

I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out.

'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.

But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

I'd like to do an independent film.

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown.

No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.