Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldsonis an Australian-born New Zealand film director, producer and writer whose films include acclaimed 1981 relationship drama Smash Palace and a run of titles shot in the United States, including Kevin Costner starrers No Way Out and Thirteen Days, and 1997 disaster movie Dante's Peak...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth15 November 1945
burner character early feature great keeping naive project stuck subject
I'd made this naive little documentary about the real Burt Munro, very early in my film-making career, and this character always stuck with me. I thought, 'God, what a great subject for a feature film!' And it's a project that I've been keeping on the back burner ever since.