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"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense."
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"I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language."
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"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."
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"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
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"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."
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"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
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"I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema."
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"Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon."
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"In cinema, the leading player is the director."
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"I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now."
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"I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue."
Attitude
"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
Devil
"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."
Devil
"They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do."
Experience
"The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good."
Creativity
"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."
Nation
"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."
Love
"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing."
People
"I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema."
Cinema
"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
Power
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