Gillian Armstrong Quotes

Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.

Hollywood is hard on women.

I never worried about topping myself.

I would never do a sexist script.

Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.

I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.

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.

Maybe women should leave time for themselves and their relationships and just have some fun.

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.

We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.

Hollywood is a very old and very structured situation. There's still a lot of old boys at the top who have the money.

The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?

After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism.

It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.

There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.

Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.

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.

I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.

I put on 'Starstruck' for my kids, and they started getting bored. I was so upset, I took it off. They preferred 'Home Alone.'

Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.