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" 'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it. "

Joel Edgerton

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" When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear. "

" That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about. "

" If, at the end of the day, I can look back and see pictures of all the characters I've played, and there's a smorgasbord of weirdos and interesting, odd, different characters, I'd be so happy. "

" I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite. "

" I was a good boy; I was never in trouble for anything. "

" So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it. "

" People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well. "

" I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time. "

Joel Edgerton

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You

" The only way for you to show what you can do is to actually do. "

" I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around. "

" I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.' "

" My brother and I are best friends. "

" Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond. "

" I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you? "

" It's an incredibly liberating feeling to have a skirt on. In fact, I know you can buy skirts, and you can buy work kilts and all sorts of stuff. "

" I often put any project I write in a different decade just to roll the thought around in my head. There's a thriller I've written that I think would be nice to set in the '70s or '80s, just to take cell phones away from the movie. There's nothing like the piercing ring of an old-school telephone to really scare an audience. "

" Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set. "

" Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make. "

" Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us? "

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