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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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"You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time."
Time
"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."
Actor
"I want the score to have a really big voice."
Voice
"There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad."
Thought
"When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer."
Music
"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."
Art
"There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there."
Music
"It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy."
Control
"Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success."
Success
"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."
Desire
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