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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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"I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films."
Worry
"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
Film
"There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them."
Film
"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
Cultural
"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
Comedy
"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff."
Leadership
"Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else."
Finance
"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."
Cultural
"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."
People
"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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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."
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"Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina."
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Personal Development
"It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not."
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Personal Development
"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
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"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
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"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."
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"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."
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"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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"I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked."
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"I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself."
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