Australian Film Quotes

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.
- Bruce Beresford

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.
- Francis Ford Coppola

I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.
- Barbara Hershey

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.
- Barbara Hershey

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.
- Ann Macbeth

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.
- Guy Pearce

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.
- Guy Pearce

I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.
- Guy Pearce

I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.
- Yahoo Serious

I support all Australian films.
- Yahoo Serious

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
- Yahoo Serious

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.
- Yahoo Serious

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
- Hugo Weaving

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.
- Hugo Weaving

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.
- Hugo Weaving