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" Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving. "

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" When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down. "

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" I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one? "

" If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences. "

" It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say. "

" I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one. "

" I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. "

" I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so. "

" Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act. "

" I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning. "

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" Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change. "

" The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different. "

" A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh. "

" The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body. "

" I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become. "

" You can't trust an artist that just makes good records. "

" L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. "

" I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really. "

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" If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?' "

" If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. "

" There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain. "

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" Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can. "

" Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not. "