AustLit

'Ten years ago, Bruce Beresford published a gem of a memoir titled Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants to Do This. Written in diary form, the book chronicled a year or two of Beresford’s life in the trenches of the modern film industry­. Ideally, of course, Beresford’s job is to direct movies. And his CV is thick with garlanded pictures­: Breaker Morant, Driving Miss Daisy, Mao’s Last Dancer. But, as his first book gorily demonstrated, even a filmmaker as successful as he is must spend an ungodly proportion of his time developing projects that go nowhere slowly­.' (Introduction)