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What's amazing about 'White Heat' is that, even for its time, it's very truthful in the way it deals with violence.

~John Hillcoat

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What was so amazing and inspiring about 'GoodFellas' was that it showed the foot soldiers; the people more at the bottom as opposed to focusing on the godfathers and the guys at the top.

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Comedy, I'm still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It's got to be the actor or someone. But the 'comic genius' actors are the darkest people on the planet - and that kind of scares me!

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I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.

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I take very seriously that challenge of trying to do genre films - but elevated genre films.

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In Australia in the '70s, there was a real embrace of different genres. And then George Miller did 'Mad Max' by the end of the '70s, the beginning of the '80s. And it was really thriving.

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Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.

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It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.

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It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the poor and in the villages of the Third World, and it's like a cruel carrot that's being waved in front of people's noses. It's a seduction, an unattainable dream.

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There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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