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"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."
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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 think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language."
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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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"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."
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"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
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"In cinema, the leading player is the director."
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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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"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."
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"Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth."
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"The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty."
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"Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience."
Experience
"Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities."
People
"It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body."
Body
"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."
Movies
"It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set."
Time
"I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances."
Acting
"My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot."
Sacrifice
"My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries."
Family
"I love mixing amateurs and professionals."
Love
"I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European."
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