Ben Lewin
Ben Lewin
Ben Lewin is an Australian director...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 August 1946
CountryAustralia
Ben Lewin quotes about
When I watch a movie, I don't want to see the extra bits.
death
If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!
If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.
women
I have always enjoyed the company of women.
success
I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.
filmmaking pain people work
I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.
time
By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.
I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.
Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.