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"We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that."

"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense."

"I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood."

"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."

"Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films."
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"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."

"There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance."

"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."

"When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him."

"The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that."

"I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me."

"Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries."

"I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable."
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