Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyceis an Australian film director...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth29 April 1950
CountryAustralia
kept locked officially primary spoke
There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.
Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki.
I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.
convinced disdain good man rejected scepticism version
The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly.
country grew small
Well, I grew up in a small country town.
belong beyond culture experience expression form hitchcock movies seem watching
Watching Hitchcock and Lean, the movies they made seem to belong to a culture and a form of expression way beyond my experience and potential.
alienated hollywood jokes longer work
You know, you go to Hollywood and work internationally, and just the little jokes no longer make you laugh. I was alienated from my own culture.
editors stuff waiting
But usually you're waiting around for these editors to do stuff and you get really bored. It was better for them to wait for me!
basis human provided realised trip
The first trip just provided the basis for the whole movie, because I realised this was a movie about the indomitable human spirit.
mean thinking knives
Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.
children kids unique
The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.
australia forever generations
Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.
responsibility trying host
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.
book loser winner
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.