20 Quotes by Justin Kurzel

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

The great thing about first-time actors is that they listen. If you say something in a scene, they were listening to it. They weren't thinking about the return line.

With 'Snowtown,' you either love it or you hate it; there's no middle ground. So I've come to understand and appreciate that's the kind of film that it is.

What happened in Snowtown was repeated many times in history, in a big scale and a small scale.

The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.

The idea that you're made up of the people that come before you and you somehow have some kind of conscious dialog with your genetics - I think it's really deep and interesting stuff.

I think 'Macbeth' was a play that I've always gotten so much out of. My wife played Lady Macbeth in a play, and I designed it. There are things in there that are just kind of extraordinary.

I actually gravitate toward comedy a lot when it comes to what I'm watching, but maybe that's because I've been on such dark work the last four or five years.

The first time I went to Cannes, Gus Van Sant was there in competition with 'Last Days.'