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"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."

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"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."

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"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."

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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."

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."

Cultural

"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."

Time

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

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Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

Johan Huizinga, Dutch Historian

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"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."

J. William Fulbright, American Politician

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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

Mark Crispin Miller, American Journalist

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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."

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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."

J. M. Coetzee, South African Author

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