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Quotes by Director
"I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money."
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"I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity."
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"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
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"Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions."
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"I'd like to work with the missus, but there's nothing in the pipeline at the moment."
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"I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar."
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"It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working."
Job,
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"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
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"See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?"
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"In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent."
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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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"I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'"
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction."
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"So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression."
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"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."
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"Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him."
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"The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals."
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"I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film."
Film,
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"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."
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"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing."
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"I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like."
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"I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too."
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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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"You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there."
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"All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain."
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"I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique."
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"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
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"You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left."
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"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."
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"Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways."
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"The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking."
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