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I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.

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The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

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I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.

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I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

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'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.

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As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever genre it is, they'll still get made.

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If you have a film that's talking about God, you would think that it would appeal to people that consider themselves religious, whatever denomination they're attached to.

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I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else.

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I cited 'Catch-22' as a landmark film and one of my favourites.

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There's something about Alan Arkin. Even when he's doing nothing, he makes me laugh. I've always had that reaction to him: he's got a weary world-view that makes him perfectly cast.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: September 11th, 1960

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