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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."

"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."

"The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself."

"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

"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."

"Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it."

"What made a movie buff different from others was the amount of freakish details they chose to fill their heads with. The typical movie-goer remembered the big lines, the ones that you could find on the film's shirts and posters. Just a bunch of tag-lines used for promotion. A true movie buff memorized the odd ones that said more about the story's theme or characters. A true buff read up on the movie's history."
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"I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded."

"I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy."

"I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day."

"Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer."
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