Local Cinema Quotes

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.

Kerala is a small state, and Malayalam films are seen by only very few people. That doesn't bother me.

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.

My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.

Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street.

I owe all the name and fame I have earned to regional cinema.

I support all Australian films.

I've always said that we must do local cinema but not lose sight of national appeal. That's the way New Theatres, L V Prasad, Gemini Studios operated.

I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.

There's something that people misunderstand about screen quotas. It's not about rejecting or hating other countries' films, but about protecting our domestic film industry.

Let's be frank. In the South, people are not as enthusiastic about Hindi movies as their own.

The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.

We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.

Nagpur was a very small town. There was no exposure to different kinds of films or world cinema. Only Manmohan Desai films.

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.

I don't even miss Bollywood because I was getting to do some amazing work in the regional industry.

Of course, Malayalam has a slightly different way of working because here at least if the movie is good, it gets some mileage by word of mouth even if you don't have big heroes.

We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?