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" Any way you want to slice it, the thing about the apocalypse is, since the beginning of time, it's the projection of mankind's worst fear. The day that, as a race, our number is up. "
Beginning
Day
Fear
" Bands are actively seeking more film involvement - because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent, are gone. "
Involvement
MTV
More
" Basically, I frittered away the Nineties making pop videos and being pretty self-indulgent. "
Making
Nineties
Pretty
" Everyone has a family, even if they're at war or fallen apart. It's the closest initial bond, and there's a sort of primal element to that. Your primary relationships are formed out of family. "
Bond
Relationships
Family
" Film has its own innate poetry. "
Innate
Poetry
Own
" For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame. "
Spectacle
Like
Alien
" I always try and find a place for Guy Pearce. The great thing about him is he's so versatile, and I wouldn't work with an actor that much if it weren't for the fact that he had so much versatility. "
Place
Try
Work
" I have very mixed feelings about big corporations. Oftentimes, they're more troublesome than not. "
Corporations
Big
Mixed
" I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something - the power of tsunamis, etc. But it's human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most. "
Cruelty
Humanity
Power
" I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality. "
You
Think
Reality
" I like to do commercials that are more than just flogging a product. It needs to have something to say. It's always an opportunity for a director to say something substantial and interesting. "
Opportunity
Interesting
Always
" I love 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner' and '2001.' "
I Love
Love
Blade
" I love strong women. "
Love
Strong Women
Strong
" I love the sci-fi movies where it's from the point of view of humans in that situation... When it becomes too clever in its ideas, the cyber-punk, high-tech thing, it becomes more about something else. "
View
Love
Ideas
" I love working with ensemble groups of actors. "
Working
I Love
Love
" I'm an Australian. And I'm speaking generally here, but Australians in general aren't patriotic or nationalistic. Our country was built by immigrants. So, by my experience, I've seen the way immigration has transformed nations. They are the key people who quite literally build civilizations, be it culturally or musically. "
People
Way
Key
" I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced. "
Think
Mankind
Environment
" It's such an intense thing to make a film. "
Thing
Make
Film
" It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating. "
Humanity
Find
Fascinating
" I've realized I've become a bit reactive to each film I do. After 'The Road,' I was desperate to do something that had color and warmth to it and a stronger sense of community. "
Community
Stronger
Road
" My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even 'The Road' was a real learning curve for me with digital effects. "
Reality
Road
World
" Radiohead showed a real affinity to being bold with visual imagery, so it came as no surprise when Jonny Greenwood did 'There Will Be Blood.' "
Bold
Being
Surprise
" Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - I steer away from them. They're alienating us socially as well as bringing us together. "
Social Media
Together
Media
" There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out. "
Circumstances
Out
Capacity
" We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people. "
People
Pressure
Best
" When you have a major movie star, and then they're surrounded by local extras, it takes me out or makes me more conscious of what's going on, as opposed to losing myself in the movie. "
You
Star
Losing
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