He is also uncompromising in fulfilling his vision which is almost always achieved with comparatively small budgets of about $1 million – Innocence was made for $856,000. As a director, he has an ongoing screen relationship with many of Australia’s greatest actors. The themes in his films – isolation, faith, hope, love, survival – remain the same and reoccur over and over, but above all else Paul Cox’s films are about human frailty. Why is it then that Paul Cox’s films generate such strong feelings, both positive and negative, the latter perhaps more so in Australia?