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Phillip Noyce Biography

Phillip Noyce (born 29 April 1950) is an Australian film director. He is an AACTA Award-Winning Film Director and has directed over 19 films. He has made two films with popular actor Harrison Ford and is well known for the 2002 Australian film Rabbit-Proof Fence.

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Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.

Australia, Came, Conscription, Forever, Generations

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Book, Books, History, Loser, Winner, Wrote

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

Bank, Host, Responsibility, Said, Sense, Trying

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

Band, Family, Laughing, People, Shrug, Together

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.

Australians, Black And White, Cities, Seeing, West, Years

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.

Australia, Country, Surrounded, Towns, Wire

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

Candy, Eating, Kids, Know, Like You, Value

Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.

Knife, Knives, Mean, Think, Thinking, Yeah

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

Fence, Littles, Lived, People, Remembered, Towns

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

Opportunity, Read, Stories, Terms, Unanswered, Volcanoes

The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

Children, Kids, Nature, Part, Unique

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.

Actors, Attitude, Children, Down, Real