Walkabout

“This film by Nicolas Roeg, Walkabout. There’s just an incredible energy that this film summons. This is a film about the collision of those two value systems, and it creates an erotic energy. Erotic energy for me is also about this notion of a vacuum, where there’s an emptiness that needs to be filled, and that feeling of it being filled creates this energy, which is erotic tension, actually. It was a defining film when I was a kid.”

“One last Australian film from the 1970s, Walkabout. A very dark movie, one by Nicolas Roeg who was British but he really managed to capture the Australian outback perfectly.”

“Walkabout has the best opening like sequence, prologue, I don't know what it is. It's like this overture that leads to like, you know, a father attempting to murder his children. It's so, that, that is something I go back to over and over again.”

“There is a sequence in Good Time that was very much inspired... Ronnie was just like, there's a sequence in Walkabout where, you know, there's a hyper-fast montage of scientists in the middle of the desert. And he was, when we wanted to do the police montage, he's like, we gotta, he showed me, he was like, we gotta do this, the way that this deals with the scientists at work.”

“[Translated] Another film up there that fascinates me is Walkabout by Nicolas Roeg. That film, which I think is from the 70s, obviously because in the 70s they experimented a lot, is crazy in its editing. And then it's an incredible story about an encounter in the desert of two characters from very different worlds—well, three actually, because there's also a child. I don't know, it fascinated me, to be honest, and I discovered it very recently thanks to my editor who recommended it to me.”