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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."
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"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."
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"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."
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"I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me."
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"One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes."
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"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."
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"Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs."
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"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
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"Comedy to me has always seemed a social tightrope for the comedian. For all axioms intellectually sound the general public would prefer to be amused, but in those emotionally sound, it then chooses to get offended."
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"You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences."
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"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."
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"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."
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"If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race."
Government
"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
Comedy
"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."
Cultural
"Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about."
People
"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
"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."
Creativity
"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
Cultural
"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."
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
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