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Phillip Noyce

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People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.


— Phillip Noyce


#defend #family #funny #instinct #just

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.


— Phillip Noyce


#around #australia #barbed #barbed wire #collection

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.


— Phillip Noyce


#also #attitude #children #down #get

I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.


— Phillip Noyce


#feel #i #knew #like #longer

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.


— Phillip Noyce


#big #fence #i #little #little town

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!


— Phillip Noyce


#candy store #eating #expensive #kid #know

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.


— Phillip Noyce


#couple #either #even #eyes #kept

Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki.


— Phillip Noyce


#i #know #out #turn #well

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.


— Phillip Noyce


#books #feature #history #history books #losers

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.


— Phillip Noyce


#audience #bank #being #entertain #feel






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Did you know about Phillip Noyce?

He remains a consulting producer on the program. He has described Rabbit-Proof Fence as "easily" his proudest moment as a director: "Showing that film to various Aboriginal communities around the country and seeing their response because it gave validity to the experiences of the stolen generations. Noyce worked on two miniseries for Australian television with fellow Australian filmmaker George Miller: The Dismissal (1983) and The Cowra Breakout (1984).

Phillip Noyce (born 29 April 1950) is an Australian film director.

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