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"Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts."
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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."

"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."

"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."

"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies."
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"There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them."

"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."

"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."

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

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

"I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films."

"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."

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