"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."

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"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."

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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

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"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

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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

"Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film."

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"It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?"

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"The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire."

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"The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire."

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