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Phillip Noyce Quotes

Phillip Noyce quotes

Australian Director April 29, 1950

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People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct. Phillip Noyce
Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions. Phillip Noyce
After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude. Phillip Noyce
The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them. Phillip Noyce
The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly. Phillip Noyce
There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either. Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyce quote: "Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the..."
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. Phillip Noyce
You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank. Phillip Noyce
Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face. Phillip Noyce
Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store! Phillip Noyce
Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat. Phillip Noyce
So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression. Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyce quote: "Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm..."
Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki. Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyce quote: "I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian."
I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian. Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyce quote: "I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my..."
I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence. Phillip Noyce

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