Australian - Director | August 3, 1974 -
When I was 17, I moved to Sydney to study set design at NIDA.
Justin Kurzel
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I'd said no to directing 'Snowtown' a few times and was quite scared of it, but I saw a story there that was worth telling.
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There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.
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I lost my father and went into a process of grief with it that was all about how to replace that grief, how to fill it, and I think there was something very desperate in the way that I was replacing it.
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We all want to belong to something, and we all want to feel as though we have a legacy, and when you see two characters that have had that taken away from them, I think that just feels very real and very human.
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As a white Australian, you're surrounded by this vast landscape you know isn't yours, so you're always intimidated. You expect to vanish up a mountain or get eaten by the ground.
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Directing is a whole series of things that would be awkward socially. But I love that. I love actors. Talking with them, touching, laughing, crying.
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I love Steve Martin so much, even in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.'
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Oh, 'Step Brothers' is genius. I could watch that film a thousand times.
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I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.
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The great thing about first-time actors is that they listen. If you say something in a scene, they were listening to it. They weren't thinking about the return line.
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With 'Snowtown,' you either love it or you hate it; there's no middle ground. So I've come to understand and appreciate that's the kind of film that it is.
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