- Born
- Birth nameAndrew Christopher Burleigh Smith
- Burleigh Smith was born on January 7, 1979 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a director and writer, known for The Things My Father Never Taught Me (2012), Then She Was Gone (2010) and Love Like You've Never Been Hurt (2009).
- Use of white titles on a black background in exactly the same layout as those of Woody Allen.
- Uses jump cuts regularly.
- Focus on relationships between men and women.
- Often uses a jazz or big band soundtrack.
- Taught mathematics at The King's School, Australia's oldest independent school for boys.
- Studied under prominent Australian film critic, David Stratton. In 2011, Stratton wrote that Smith's enthusiasm for film matched his own.
- Lectured in filmmaking at SAE Institute, Perth, 2007-2016.
- Has often cited his favourite directors to be Woody Allen, Darren Aronofsky, Bruce Beresford, Ingmar Bergman, Xavier Dolan, Clint Eastwood, Nicole Holofcener, Richard Linklater, Jason Reitman, Steven Soderbergh and Lars von Trier.
- Talent is not as important as hard work.
- I'd rather write a new script from scratch than have to do a second draft.
- Do I think I'm the next Woody Allen? I certainly aspire to be. But I'm more neurotic and less talented.
- I have a very short attention span and the patience of a child.
- Political correctness is the new terrorism.
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