Shortland Quotes & Sayings

Every film you do, you always look at it and you think, "I could do better," but I'm never going to tell people what I could do better. I think it's up to them to make up their own mind. — Cate Shortland

It's so easy to say "evil Nazi monsters," but as soon as we do that, we take away the fact that it was individuals committing individual acts of murder. They had children, and what does that do? As soon as you generalize, they become monsters. It doesn't allow you to understand it in any kind of sophisticated way. — Cate Shortland

Try and withhold your judgment, because as soon as you think you know something, you're shutting down. — Cate Shortland

Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else. — Carl Crawford

The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part. — Cate Shortland

Kathryn Bigelow is a really good example of somebody that has maintained her truth and she makes the films she wants to make and she hasn't let other people affect her too much. Her last film is to me so inspiring and the way she sees war, the way she set up those really intimate relationships in and amongst this carnage. — Cate Shortland

I have worked with a lot of really great women directors: Ana Kokkinos; Cate Shortland, who just recently directed a film called 'Lore;' another director, Rachel Perkins - she's an Aboriginal director, and I've worked with her three times now, and she gave me my first film role, actually, back in 1997. — Deborah Mailman

I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me. — Cate Shortland

I'm a really judgmental person, and it just dumbs everything down. It doesn't create any room for interrogation or investigation. — Cate Shortland

I feel like I need just to keep trying to make the work for the right reasons. I think part of that is working with really good people, and just trying to make strong truthful work. And not being diverted from that. — Cate Shortland

We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they're spying on somebody who doesn't know they're looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously - you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not. — Betty White

There's no way the new chimney will fall down, Lu. Not with you in charge. It wouldn't dare. — Angie Sage

I fucking loved him and I hated it. I hated him for making me love him. I hated Kyle for leaving me alone so many nights for so many years. And mostly I just hated myself for doing this to all of us. — Adriane Leigh

The significance of things can only evolve in time.Nothing is what it is until it becomes what it must become — Gaye Shortland

In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage. — Chris Paine