Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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.
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.
Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories