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"In cinema, the leading player is the director."
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"On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre."
"I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations."
"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."
"The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty."
"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
"The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits."
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"There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word."
"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
"As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving."
"I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had."
"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."
"The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that."
"Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work."
"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."
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