Top 31 Gillian Armstrong Quotes
#3. Maybe women should leave time for themselves and their relationships and just have some fun.
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#4. It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.
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#5. It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.
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#6. Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.
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#7. After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism.
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#8. Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.
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#10. Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.
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#14. I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.
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#15. I do think the moral line you walk all the time about putting something in for the sake of the film and not being affected by people's lives is a very tough one.
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#16. Hollywood is a very old and very structured situation. There's still a lot of old boys at the top who have the money.
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#17. I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.
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#18. I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.
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#19. The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?
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#20. Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.
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#21. When I was a young filmmaker starting out, I was really snobby about all the affirmative action for women filmmakers because I felt it should be about your talent, and I made a film that won awards, and people wanted me.
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#22. We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.
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#23. You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.
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#24. When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.
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#25. 'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.
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#26. There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.
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#27. I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.
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#28. I put on 'Starstruck' for my kids, and they started getting bored. I was so upset, I took it off. They preferred 'Home Alone.'
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#29. Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons.
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#30. Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.
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#31. It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.
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