Is not parody the eternal lot of man?
It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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.
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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.
In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll.
Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she presents as a pretty respectable, intelligent person who has cared passionately about education and cares about charter schools.
We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive.
Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself.
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.