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"In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films."
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"Money is only a problem to those that aren't willing to develop a higher conscience about how to master it."

"Organized scarcity is the best way to increase your profits.This is the idea of the ends justify the means. There are second and third order effects that will take away all of the gains and then some. Wisdom is better than gold, peace is better than profit."

"A sure way to go broke is to spend your outer riches before you have saved enough of your inner ones."

"Sharpen and trust your judgement: learn when spending is a shrewd investment and when it is merely an indulgence."

"Investing is a simple process of taking into account the present value and future value. The other major factor to understand here, is what you lose as a result of inaction. Consider what you can gain and what you can lose in your decision."

"Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent."
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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."

"When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men."

"With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life."

"On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through."

"When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen."

"When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match."

"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created."
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