Quotes

If I provide the money, James provides the looks.

Other companies were saying maybe James can direct but Leigh definitely can't do the lead. We want Orlando someone.

I’d be sitting in the bathroom with the chain on, eating my lunch… I’m not sure how helpful that actually was.

In the end, they know it's just fiction, and I don't think it's so sick that they would start thinking about booking me in for therapy.

Don't I have a person to get wet for me? A stunt wet?

All of a sudden, I'm on set and I'm like, "Oh yeah, I have to spend this whole film wet." Someone should have really told me but I can't say that because I wrote it.

It was only a couple of weeks before shooting that I thought “Shit! I’ve got to act!”

Interviewer: How large was the crew you shot the short with?
Cary: Yeah, where did you raise the money for that?
James: Well, I…
Leigh: He went to the bank of me…

I thought Cary was good, but a thousand white candles in his dressing room was going a bit far.

Somehow, we pulled it out of our arse, as we say in Australia.

You had to make a film to get into the course, and he's like, "Show me the film you made." So I pop in this videotape and it's like this little piece of 17 year old angst.

We've got three drops of convict blood in us, because we are from Australia. We are used to oppression.

Now for the rest of my life, if I go swimming, in my subconscious there's this thing of JAWS and JAWS really taps into a primal fear.

There's only really two genres - good and bad films!

James wasn't working, so any shit he can give me for working on that show, I can hit right back with right! Unemployed!


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