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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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"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
Film
"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
Cultural
"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
Comedy
"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."
Finance
"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?"
Conservative
"Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire."
Hollywood
"While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour."
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"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."
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"As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight."
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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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"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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"She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy."
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"I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material."
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"I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy."
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"Good comedy is ageless."
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"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field."
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