Quotes About Australian Film

#1. I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

Yahoo Serious

#2. I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

Deborah Kara Unger

#3. The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.

Deborah Mailman

#4. I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.

Guy Pearce

#5. I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.

Guy Pearce

#6. When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.

Gillian Armstrong

#7. I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

Barbara Hershey

#8. The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.

John Polson

#9. There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

Yahoo Serious

#10. I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

Barbara Hershey

#11. 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

#12. 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.

Ann Macbeth

#13. The Wall will stand for a hundred years.

Erich Honecker

#14. I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.

Baba Kalyani

#15. Vivian walking into a room and lighting it up so much it felt as if I had swallowed a tiny piece of the sun.

Haleigh Lovell

#16. There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

Mia Wasikowska

#17. Honour and profit lie not in one sacke.
[Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]

George Herbert

#18. If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#19. Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.

Dan Wells

#20. 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.

Yahoo Serious

#21. It seemed poison had been poured into wonder's own decanter.

R. Scott Bakker

#22. As a task becomes automated, the parts of the brain involved in conscious reasoning become less active and other parts of the brain take over. You could call it the "OK plateau," the point at which you decide you're OK with how good you are at something, turn on autopilot, and stop improving.

Joshua Foer

#23. I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

Joshua Chamberlain

#24. I didn't respond, because naked people never win arguments.

Kevin Hearne

#25. 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.

Yahoo Serious

#26. I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't ever do a film just because it's been shot at home.

Eric Bana

#27. Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection - in memory - that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us.

Sue Miller

#28. I thought of him as a beautiful deer in the forest that made this world a better place simply by existing; I didn't need it in my living room hanging off the wall.

Rainbowbrook

#29. perhaps that's what we thought we were. Benevolent gods.
Now look at us.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#30. 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