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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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"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."
"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."
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"It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film."
"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
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"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."
"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
"To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do."
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"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."
"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."
"The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire."
"While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour."
"You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good."
"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
"I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration."
"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."
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