I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.
If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
Just because I make films doesn't mean I think they're great. I just make them and then when I'm done with them I'm just a filmgoer like I always am. They're all lessons. I'm still in film school, honestly. And this one is just a dry run for whatever the next one is.
Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
. . . treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.
Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.
Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.
I tend not to worry about what the perception is. I think people have their different views over different things. They have different opinions over different business models and over different business interests.