One Man's Meat

I've turned the sauna on for you.

– Jo (Donogh Rees) to her husband

In the orginal story there was justification for why the woman did it. But I didn't want to justify it. I wanted the audience to enjoy the fact that the woman got away with it without having to worry about the explanations.

– Writer/director Christine Parker in Broadsheet, Winter 1992, page 18

I was looking for a good story for a film and at the same time I was talking to friends about how common the fantasy of men dying was with heterosexual women ... You only have to listen to theatre audiences respond to the revenge sequence in Thelma and Louise to appreciate the enormity of the anger women are feeling towards men.

– Writer/director Christine Parker to author Deborah Shepard, in Shephard's 2000 book Reframing Women - A History of New Zealand Film. page 142

One Man's Meat was based on a short story, 'Waiting for Jim, by Frances Cherry, originally published in an anthology of women's writing, Subversive Arts (1991), edited by Cathie Dunsford. According to Cathie, when she called for submissions she was deluged with stories of women killing their husbands.

– Author Deborah Shepard, in her 2000 book Reframing Women - A History of New Zealand Film. page 141