I'm a really judgmental person, and it just dumbs everything down. It doesn't create any room for interrogation or investigation.
Cate ShortlandI feel like I need just to keep trying to make the work for the right reasons. I think part of that is working with really good people, and just trying to make strong truthful work. And not being diverted from that.
Cate ShortlandTry and withhold your judgment, because as soon as you think you know something, you're shutting down.
Cate ShortlandEvery film you do, you always look at it and you think, "I could do better," but I'm never going to tell people what I could do better. I think it's up to them to make up their own mind.
Cate ShortlandThe biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part.
Cate ShortlandIt's so easy to say "evil Nazi monsters," but as soon as we do that, we take away the fact that it was individuals committing individual acts of murder. They had children, and what does that do? As soon as you generalize, they become monsters. It doesn't allow you to understand it in any kind of sophisticated way.
Cate Shortland