People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people. Rachel Griffiths More Quotes by Rachel Griffiths More Quotes From Rachel Griffiths The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story. Rachel Griffiths filmmaker actors stories There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance. Rachel Griffiths comeback second-chance dream Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy. Rachel Griffiths acting fun I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling. Rachel Griffiths picks done feelings Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality. Rachel Griffiths buddhist atheist christian I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports. Rachel Griffiths stories sports thinking A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that. Rachel Griffiths golden substance doubt Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality.... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian-Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light. Rachel Griffiths buddhist strong christian There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian. Rachel Griffiths sarcasm littles fun But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom. Rachel Griffiths partners I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story. Rachel Griffiths over-you stories thinking I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer. Rachel Griffiths screenplays producers moments I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country. Rachel Griffiths rich country thinking I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature. Rachel Griffiths features fit I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized. Rachel Griffiths grew-up kids thinking I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family. Rachel Griffiths portraits support interesting You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses. Rachel Griffiths small-business texas dust Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere. Rachel Griffiths stay-positive powerful gone We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama. Rachel Griffiths struggle drama father I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes. Rachel Griffiths genre-is baseball thinking
