My Name is Gulpilil (2021)

David Gulpilil: Self

Quotes 

• David Gulpilil : My name is Gulpilil. My skin group name Balang. My language is Mandhalpingu. My moiety is Dhuwa. My mother is same and my father side is same. My name is Gulpilil, you know that mean? Kingfisher. That's my name, that's my totem, that's what I sing, that's what I believe. My name is in the tree, in the fish, in the sky, in the star, in the earth, in the storm, day and night. If I forget, if I give up, if I stop, what will I have? Nothing.

• David Gulpilil : What a beauty of the land. The land stays there forever and ever. You sit down here really quiet, the land will be talking to you. This land is telling me; here I am.

• David Gulpilil : I'm shivering like a fish from the billabong. The cancer is walking around in me... it's every-where.

• David Gulpilil : I'm an actor, I'm a dancer, I'm a singer and also, a painter. This film is about me. This is my story of my story.

• David Gulpilil : I supposed to die pretty long time ago but I'm still alive here. I'm still in this movie!

• David Gulpilil : And this story, it's about me. And no one else can do the life of me, it's only me. I can do the life about me.

• David Gulpilil : I understand every little movement of the filming, and I'm not shy. and I like to do the filming, because I like to show my face, to remember.

• David Gulpilil : I remember being in the bush, wandering around with my father, hunting for kangaroo, hunting for fish.

• David Gulpilil : Me, I became famous myself with my own culture...... my father taught me how to dance and how to sing and how to communicate with didgeridoo and the clapstick, and to listen too. The rhythm of the song of culture, song of the ceremony.

• David Gulpilil : The film 'Walkabout', made me the star. Her Majesty Queen of England, she introduce me to John Lennon and many more others. I made a lot of film and I remember all the famous people. I shake hand to Bruce Lee. I met Clint Eastwood. Famous people, Jimmy Hendrix.

• David Gulpilil : I'm facing this camera. I like to make a film, it's a history. I like it because it won't rub it out... .this film will remember to generation to generation.

• David Gulpilil : The spirit of the galaxy is waiting for me there. And the wind, I'll fly... Take me to the waterhole. Right there in the waterhole where I born...