Opportunity Quote by Phillip Noyce

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

— 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. It's a…

— Phillip Noyce

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

— 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 earlier than…

— Phillip Noyce

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

— 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 not only…

— Phillip Noyce

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

— 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 area. And…

— 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 do it…

— Phillip Noyce