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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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"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
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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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"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."
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"I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema."
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"Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon."
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"In cinema, the leading player is the director."
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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
"ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that."
Grief
"It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body."
Body
"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."
Cinema
"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."
Movies
"I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider."
Being
"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."
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