Luke Davies Quotes

Australia, Writer
January 1, 1962

Luke Davies is an Australian writer of poetry, novels and screenplays. His best known works are Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction (which was adapted for the screen in 2006) and the screenplay for the film Lion.

The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'

Luke Davies
- Life
- Great
- Art
That's why actors are so great and why they earn so much money. They take away the anxious necessity to find the right words.

Luke Davies
- Great
- Money
- Why

I was a weird kid. It wasn't until I saw 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' at 16 that my whole world changed. The obsession with that was equal to the obsession with writing.

Luke Davies
- World
- God
- Writing
If there's one thing I've written that could survive into posterity, I'd want that to be the poetry.

Luke Davies
- Poetry
Without Deborah Harry, there's no Madonna; there's no Lady Gaga and beyond. There was something that she did that was very new and powerful in pop, and she was responsible for a change in the way the world acted.

Luke Davies
- World
- She
- Powerful
Being the writer is merely control freak level two. You've got to get to control freak level one.

Luke Davies
- Control
I liked school. I was happy enough there, I think.

Luke Davies
- School
- Happy
Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.

Luke Davies
- Life
- Real
- Drawing

The only films that really matter to me are the ones where there are characters whose interactions are moving.

Luke Davies
- Moving