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Quotes by Director
"I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years."
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"The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly."
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"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
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"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats."
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"In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids."
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"My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them."
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"When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it."
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"You just never know when you're living in a golden age."
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"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
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"Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity."
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"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
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"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
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"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
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"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
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"For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it."
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"Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things."
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"The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe."
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"You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead."
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"There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die."
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"It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form."
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"I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image."
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"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."
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"Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema."
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"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."
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"You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization."
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"Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on."
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"Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?"
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"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance."
Work,
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"I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say."
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