Yahoo Serious Quotes
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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I support all Australian films.
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You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.
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We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.