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I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.

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Music stops you from thinking.

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You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

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I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

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Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

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There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn't want to. I was impatient with being at home. But I hung on to the approach I've always had, which is to wait for a project that I could contribute something unique to.

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I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

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I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.

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The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

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Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Director

Born: August 21st, 1944

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