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"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."

"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."

"I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios."

"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."

"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."

"Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him."

"As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around."

"I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?"
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"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."

"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."

"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."

"While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour."

"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."

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

"I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration."

"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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