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This is a recent interview with the legendary Jack Thompson. We wanted to find out more himself, his thoughts on life, and his passions. I hope you enjoy this a much as we did. What have you learnt about … Yourself? I’ve learned not to take myself too seriously. I’m very serious about that. Love? Ahh…love. It makes the world go round, it certainly still makes my head spin and I think it’s the main reason everyone gets up and gets going every day. Family? Well, a family can comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, there’s not just one kind. We all need some sort of family – that seems pretty self evident. Mostly, people flourish in families and that is what you would wish. The sense of family that I’ve seen in our Indigenous communities is truly inspiring. Belonging? Is slightly different. I feel a sense of belonging to different places, yet I wasn’t necessarily born in them, there is just something about the way a place resonates; perhaps it’s the labouring that’s gone on there,or the lives that have gone before, who knows, but some places you just feel different about them. I feel like that about the farm I have in Northern NSW. When I’m away on a film, it can be months before I get back to sleep on the farm, but the minute I drive through the gate, I know I belong. And yet I wasn’t born there. I’ve lived there on and off, I’ve worked the land there and I’ve made my family there. I can FEEL that I belong there. Brothers? My brother Peter has been a mentor, a mate, an intellectual partner in crime and someone I miss when I’m away. He is the kind of brother everyone should have, and the kind of brother I would hope to be. Fatherhood? It is the greatest gift in my life. Sons? See above Loss? I try not to dwell on it, but when it’s the reading glasses or the car keys, it’s time to dwell like mad….. Following your dreams? Always, and I encourage everybody else to do it too. Artists are great dreamers, so are poets, so are filmmakers and I count myself lucky to have worked around so many people following their dreams. For more on Jack Thompson and his other great love - Australian poetry, please visit our website at Fine Poets. All the legendary Australian poets and their work are here. Find poems of Banjo Paterson, Poems by Henry Lawson, CJ Dennis and whole of favourite Australian poems on CD.
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