The great thing about first-time actors is that they listen. If you say something in a scene, they were listening to it. They weren't thinking about the return line.
From Justin Kurzel
With 'Snowtown,' you either love it or you hate it; there's no middle ground. So I've come to understand and appreciate that's the kind of film that it is.
What happened in Snowtown was repeated many times in history, in a big scale and a small scale.
The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.
The idea that you're made up of the people that come before you and you somehow have some kind of conscious dialog with your genetics - I think it's really deep and interesting stuff.
I think 'Macbeth' was a play that I've always gotten so much out of. My wife played Lady Macbeth in a play, and I designed it. There are things in there that are just kind of extraordinary.
I actually gravitate toward comedy a lot when it comes to what I'm watching, but maybe that's because I've been on such dark work the last four or five years.
The first time I went to Cannes, Gus Van Sant was there in competition with 'Last Days.'
In Australia, I think, there's so much baggage with it. You just mention 'Snowtown,' and everyone's got an opinion about it.
I definitely had very strong male figures in my life, who, when I look back, clearly laid the foundations to who I am.
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