Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
It's not a great feeling for a film to suffer financially, but you can't sit and mope about it. You just have to just move on to next project - I try to always be working on a new project when my last one hits the theaters.
Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it.
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.
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
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.
Every film is hard to fund.
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.
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