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Quotes by Director
"The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple."
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"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"
Film,
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"I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today."
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"Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size."
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"My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration."
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"These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer."
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"I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts."
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"People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip."
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"The technology of the time dictated the way things looked."
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"New Zealand is not a small country but a large village."
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"So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time."
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"I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators."
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"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."
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"When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do."
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"One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day."
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"ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that."
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"If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story."
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"I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button."
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"You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character."
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"You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life."
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"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."
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"I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean."
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