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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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"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."
Worry
"Making your first feature film is actually impossible."
Film
"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."
Religion
"Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?"
Talent
"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
Film
"The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire."
Trust
"There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them."
Film
"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
Cultural
"In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll."
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"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."
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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."
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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
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