Australian - Director | December 18, 1950 -
Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.
Gillian Armstrong
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When I was a young filmmaker starting out, I was really snobby about all the affirmative action for women filmmakers because I felt it should be about your talent, and I made a film that won awards, and people wanted me.
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We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.
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It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.
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I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.
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Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.
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I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.
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Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons.
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I do think the moral line you walk all the time about putting something in for the sake of the film and not being affected by people's lives is a very tough one.
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It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.
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I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.
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Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.
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