Phillip Noyce

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never…

— Phillip Noyce

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together.…

— Phillip Noyce

The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for…

— Phillip Noyce

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

— Phillip Noyce

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years…

— Phillip Noyce

The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting…

— Phillip Noyce

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

— Phillip Noyce

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and…

— Phillip Noyce

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there.…

— Phillip Noyce

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

— Phillip Noyce

A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our…

— Phillip Noyce

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can…

— Phillip Noyce

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was…

— Phillip Noyce

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

— Phillip Noyce

Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that…

— Phillip Noyce

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel…

— Phillip Noyce