Yahoo Serious Quotes

• Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

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  Tags in Australian, Aussie, Film

• It’s because we are so flooded with American culture that we’re startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

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  Tags in Ourselves, Startled, Flooded, Culture

• Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you’ll ever do on your film.

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• Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won’t and that’s what it’s all about.

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  Tags in People, Filmmaking, Go For It

• I don’t know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.

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• So we have to be careful because if you don’t protect your culture you won’t have it for very long.

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• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

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  Tags in Difficult, Strangely

• Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it’s hard for me then God help everyone else.

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  Tags in Box, Finance, Office, Australian, Hard, Help

• Hollywood is horrible… it’s beyond satire.

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  Tags in Satire, Hollywood

• The American formula things are out there but they don’t have any stories to tell – we have all the stories to tell – but they’re all formula.

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  Tags in Formula, Stories

• We’ve got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

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  Tags in Tells, World

• While the eyes of the world will be on us let’s show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

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  Tags in Humour

• Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

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• Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you’ll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It’s a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

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  Tags in Counts, Sucked, Audience, Click

• I kind of worry about that a little bit – we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn’t show any Australian films.

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  Tags in Culture, Bought, Worry, Chain

• If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we’d just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen – we’re such an amazing race.

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  Tags in Media, Cultural, Tribe, Force, Australian

• Australians don’t have a preconceived notion of what things have to be… we can go on a fantastic journey.

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  Tags in Preconceived, Fantastic, Australian

• My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Director, Thrilling, Documentary, Stupidity, Act

• All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they’re not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

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  Tags in Comedy, Hold, Jokes, Mirror

• I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn’t want to give creative control to overseas ’cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you’re sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn’t matter who comes up with the ideas, it’s a collaboration.

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  Tags in Whoever, Sweeping, Overseas, Control

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Birth:	27th July, 1953
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actor, Composer, Director

About

Yahoo Serious, born Greg Pead, is an Australian film actor, director and score composer. He is best known for his 1988 comedy Young Einstein. He also created Reckless Kelly in 1993 and Mr. Accident in 2000. Serious writes, directs, produces, stars in, and has composed the scores for his movies.

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