Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.
Warwick ThorntonIn most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.
Warwick ThorntonYou live with someone until they accept that you are what you are, that you're not going to change and they love that about you - and then they decide to marry you, I guess.
Warwick Thornton