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"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."
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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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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."
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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."
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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
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