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"So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?"
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"I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now."
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"Doing cinema is not about watching yourself."
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"We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that."
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"I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema."
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"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense."
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"I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood."
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"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."
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"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."
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"Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films."
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"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."
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"No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?"
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"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account."
Children
"On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other."
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"Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people."
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"Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries."
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"It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade."
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"I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties."
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"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
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"One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives."
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"But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all."
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