Tracker

Bloody right I’m curious. I’m very curious to find out why you boys crossed two oceans, to help the British burn down my farm.

– Arjan van Diemen (Ray Winstone) to a Kiwi customs official (Greg Johnson)

Both these guys are tough guys, but they are the most sensitive actors I’ve ever worked with.

– Director Ian Sharp, on Temuera Morrison and Ray Winstone

I always saw it as a western — as a huge epic western on this vast canvas of New Zealand ... You have here also the same kind of dramatic landscape, and the same big issues, the same big themes.

– Director Ian Sharp

Quietly engaging ... an interesting insight into an era rarely seen on film and an atmospheric showcase for Winstone and Morrison’s talents — not to mention New Zealand’s spectacular landscape.

– Anna Smith, in a three star review for Empire, October 2009

[Van Palland] planned to direct it personally and even wrote the role of Kereama for [Temuera] Morrison.

– June 2011 Marlborough Express story on Tracker creator Nicolas van Pallandt, who died of cancer in 2006