What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.
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.
We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in their production.
You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.
I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.
Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.
Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.
If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.
What I'm mostly good at is sleeping, he once told me in confidence, but he added, I don't see much future in it.
Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person...
