It's hard to pinpoint why all of a sudden a group of Australian films will be doing well and why they perhaps are better made than some from the past.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.
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.
In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.
Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films.
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.
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.
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.
Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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