Sam Pillsbury's The Scarecrow was the first Kiwi movie to win invitation to the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. The part-Kiwi, part-American filmmaker has also worked in documentary, and made a run of feature films and television movies.
Big money and big talk don’t make good films. Wit, style, dedication, passion, commitment and conviction make good films...
– Sam Pillsbury, in a 1982 Listener interview