Rowan Woods
Rowan Woods
Rowan Woods is an Australian film and television director, actor and screenwriter. Woods directed The Boys in 1998 and won an AFI award for best direction. The film was also entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival...
attention great modest nominated publicity whenever
Whenever you go to these things, everyone's modest and say they don't want to be nominated but it's great publicity and attention for the film.
boldly inspired movies
I am inspired by movies with distinctive directorial signatures that boldly underscore the writing,
addiction beloved central certain character class collapse death extent family free friend heroic life ordinary overcoming problems silly single struggle stuff suburban threat
The threat of disintegration and collapse in this family and to a certain extent the heroic struggle of the central character in overcoming the problems that beset her is real. It's real, you know? It's not the stuff of losers, it's the stuff of ordinary families, ordinary suburban families. Not the working class poor, not the silly rich, it's the stuff of every single family I know. There is a family member, there is a beloved friend who is beset by the life and death struggle to do with drug addiction and getting free of it.