You know those times when you watch a movie and wish you were where the characters are, doing what they're doing, hanging out with who they're hanging out with? That's my whole life. If anything, it's just another reason I want to make films. I want to create those scenarios for other people to immerse themselves in and desire. To write about bonfire nights on beach shores with dancing and music and and friends. Family holidays at Christmas time where everyone gets drunk and sings "Take On Me" by Aha. The Greek Islands with new friends and new experiences. A story where a girl with no idea about her life goes travelling and find things she could never have hoped for. There are all these ideas and stories that come to the surface when I watch films, and mostly, they've already been made. But I want to put a new spin on them. Create what I would want to see, as an audience member. Put them in Australia, but not the outback. Have them struggle with relationships, but not with money. Have there be trouble, but not gang-affiliated. I swear there must be 10,000 or more people that have similar thoughts, it's just that no one will throw any sort of money towards ideas like this here in Oz. Well, someday, they'll have to throw some of that money my way because my films will be great.
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