James Robertson
James Robertson
Filmmaker who wrote, directed and starred in the film The Dark Horse, which became a huge hit in his native New Zealand in 2014. His directorial debut, I'm Not Harry Jenson, was nominated for Best Picture at the 2009 AFTA Awards.
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth24 March 1982
blessing past desire
Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.
hands long
The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.
pie people perception
There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.
pay dues
No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life,
paper flow ink
I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.
means stop time win
This is my first time through this, and I didn't want to stop playing. The win means a lot, because we keep playing.
it is undisputed a preliminary injunction would kill this merger.
mother strong arrogance-of-youth
The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.
believe factor hearing point
We have been hearing more than one story, but from my point of view, I believe that there is more than one factor at play here.
may stories deceiving
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.