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.

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!

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

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.

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.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

I remember how amazing it felt to be loved by him and how he was all I ever wanted.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served.

I can't stand watching myself on TV.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.