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"I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is."
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"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."
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"There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them."
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"Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller."

"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."

"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
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"They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people."

"My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition."

"If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction."

"I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot."

"So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light."

"We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me."

"Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of."

"You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you."
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