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"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."
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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."
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"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."
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"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat."
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"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?"
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"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."
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"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."
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"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."
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"Making your first feature film is actually impossible."
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"If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race."
Government
"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
Comedy
"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 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."
Cultural
"Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about."
People
"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."
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"I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration."
Creativity
"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
Cultural
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