Australian Films Quotes

#1. Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.

Georgina Haig

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

Hugo Weaving

#3. I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

Hugo Weaving

#4. I support all Australian films.

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#5. Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.

Hugo Weaving

#6. I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.

Josh Lawson

#7. I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience.

Joel Edgerton

#8. It's hard to pinpoint why all of a sudden a group of Australian films will be doing well and why they perhaps are better made than some from the past.

Guy Pearce

#9. I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

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#10. All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.

Francis Ford Coppola

#11. Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

Bruce Beresford

#12. There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

Nick Park

#13. Human beings, you see, fall apart all the time. In many different ways. That is the central theme. There is no need to disguise it.

Patrick Somerville

#14. To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#15. Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

Quentin Tarantino

#16. So I'd gotten rid of that negativity and I'd show, Well, here's something done right. Here's the mistake, but here's how to fix the mistake.

Robert Greene

#17. Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

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#18. Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

Steven Pressfield

#19. You told me I was making you crazy last night," he reminds me, drawing me out of my thoughts, back to a present I'm uncertain of.
"You are, Chris."
"Well, you are making me crazy, too."
"Is this supposed to be making me feel better?

Lisa Renee Jones

#20. Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that's what life is like, that's what interests me.

Joss Whedon