Rachel Griffiths Quotes

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized.

I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

There's a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.