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" The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life. "
Justin Kurzel
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" Directing is a whole series of things that would be awkward socially. But I love that. I love actors. Talking with them, touching, laughing, crying. "
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" In Australia, I think, there's so much baggage with it. You just mention 'Snowtown,' and everyone's got an opinion about it. "
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" As a white Australian, you're surrounded by this vast landscape you know isn't yours, so you're always intimidated. You expect to vanish up a mountain or get eaten by the ground. "
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" I definitely had very strong male figures in my life, who, when I look back, clearly laid the foundations to who I am. "
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" When I was 17, I moved to Sydney to study set design at NIDA. "
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" I'd said no to directing 'Snowtown' a few times and was quite scared of it, but I saw a story there that was worth telling. "
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" I love Steve Martin so much, even in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.' "
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" I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence. "
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" With 'Snowtown,' you either love it or you hate it; there's no middle ground. So I've come to understand and appreciate that's the kind of film that it is. "
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" I actually gravitate toward comedy a lot when it comes to what I'm watching, but maybe that's because I've been on such dark work the last four or five years. "
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" We all want to belong to something, and we all want to feel as though we have a legacy, and when you see two characters that have had that taken away from them, I think that just feels very real and very human. "
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" The idea that you're made up of the people that come before you and you somehow have some kind of conscious dialog with your genetics - I think it's really deep and interesting stuff. "
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" What happened in Snowtown was repeated many times in history, in a big scale and a small scale. "
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" I think 'Macbeth' was a play that I've always gotten so much out of. My wife played Lady Macbeth in a play, and I designed it. There are things in there that are just kind of extraordinary. "
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" I lost my father and went into a process of grief with it that was all about how to replace that grief, how to fill it, and I think there was something very desperate in the way that I was replacing it. "
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Father
" The great thing about first-time actors is that they listen. If you say something in a scene, they were listening to it. They weren't thinking about the return line. "
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" The first time I went to Cannes, Gus Van Sant was there in competition with 'Last Days.' "
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" Oh, 'Step Brothers' is genius. I could watch that film a thousand times. "
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