A biography for Russell Crowehasn’t been written yet.
“I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.”
“If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.”
“War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.”
“I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.”
“When I read 'The Water Diviner,' I was having the same kind of visceral reaction that I would normally have acting in something. I believed that I was the only person that could tell this story the way it needed to be told. That's the real arrogance of a director!”