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You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets. . . supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.

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John Michael McDonagh

I presume that each country will have a different response to each joke. But mostly what I've seen is that everyone has the same response. The line about: "He hasn't had this much fun since they burned all those kids at Waco. . . " I thought that might get a real. . . . it does in America, it gets a shock, as if they fall back in their seats, but then they still laugh.

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I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the type of people directing movies I might as well direct one myself!"

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Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit more brutal.

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Basically, you can't make a pop culture reference now without someone saying it's Tarantino-esque or post-Tarantino and I'm like where's that all come from? It's ridiculous. But it's not his fault.

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I like Quentin Tarantino, especially the early films, but I'm a big fan of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges. . . you know, people were writing great dialogue back then. It's as if people only have the memory of the last 15 years. So, before Tarantino no one was writing witty dialogue? That's ridiculous. Why do we have to keep referring to Tarantino?

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Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting alone in a room so you're writing to amuse yourself as much as anybody else.

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