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Jocelyn Moorhouse [1960-0] Australian
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Director, Writer


Jocelyn Denise Moorhouse is an Australian writer and film director. She has directed films such as Proof, How to Make an American Quilt and A Thousand Acres.
Moorhouse has produced some of her husband, film director P. J. Hogan's films: Muriel's Wedding and 2012's Mental.
In 2012, Moorhouse directed her first play Sex with Strangers for the Sydney Theatre Company. In October 2014, she started filming The Dressmaker, with Kate Winslet and Judy Davis.


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I feel L.A. is unlike anything I've experienced. It's nice when I can relate to people, but that's not very often. I know they're out there, but I feel that there's a very big pressure here to be seen as being gorgeous and special. I don't think there's the same pressure in Australia.
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I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct.
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I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.
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When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.
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I always like being able to do something I haven't done before.
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Having two children with autism, it makes you really think about how we do relate to each other.
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I'm superstitious.
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I am interested in stories that concern women.
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