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Quotes by Director
"I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies."
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"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."
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"Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible."
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"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."
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"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created."
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"The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience."
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"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort."
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"I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him."
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"As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can."
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"Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are."
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"I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself."
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"Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists."
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"I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?"
Want,
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"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."
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"I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue."
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"Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there."
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"In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll."
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"I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano."
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"I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second."
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"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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