Coming Home - Roger Donaldson & Steve Millen

You name it, Steve drove it — any class, anywhere, any time. As long as it went fast.

– Narrator John Sumner, on Steve Millen

In many ways they had no choice: the desire for faster cars and bigger movies meant heading to the country where everything is bigger, and supposedly better.

– Narrator John Sumner, on Steve Millen and Roger Donaldson heading to California in the 1980s

...it's a very competitive, cut-throat sort of place, and it really only has any time for you if you're a success. It's not a lot of room left for those people who aren't making it. So a lot of people come here and get very bitter about the place, if things haven't worked out for them.

– Roger Donaldson on Hollywood

I had on my last movie, there were 3,000 people who worked on it. Compared to, I guess probably about 80 that worked on making Smash Palace. That's a big difference, and you know obviously if you've got about 80 people you can make it cheaper than you can if you've got 3,000.

– Roger Donaldson discusses the differences between the making of Smash Palace and Thirteen Days