Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyce
Phillip Noyceis an Australian film director...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth29 April 1950
CountryAustralia
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!
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.
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.
kids eating like-you
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!
black-and-white years cities
Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.
opportunity volcanoes stories
So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.
attitude children real
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.
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.
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.
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.