Yahoo Serious Quotes

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

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Difficult, Strangely

• You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we’re not like that… we’re more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them – they feel good.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel Good, Seeing

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

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

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

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tells, World

• We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it’s more a business that’s out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Government, Riot, Time Quetes, Guess

• We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tells, Hollywood, Cheer, Cheerfulness

• Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we’d finally cobbled together our low budget film.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Budget, Finance, Effects, Cobbled, Together, Special

• There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thousand, Film, Australian, Untold, Weird

• 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.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Counts, Sucked, Audience, Click

• The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obsession, Aspire, Intelligent

• The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Beyond, Satire, Truly, Journey

• 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.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Formula, Stories

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

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Be Careful, Protect

• 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.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

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

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Director, Thrilling, Documentary, Stupidity, Act

• Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impossible, Making

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

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Startled, Flooded, Culture

• It’s an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Explore, Chase, Universe, Infinite

• It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in I Was Born, Lucky

• In a kind of a way there’s a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

  Yahoo Serious

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Preserve, Be Careful, Careful, Happening

Yahoo Serious (32)

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.

Related Authors

• Mike Epps
• James Cagney
• T Bone Burnett
• Jean Louis Trintignant
• Colin Farrell
• George Kennedy
• Chi McBride
• Dave Willis
• Frank Oz
• Max von Sydow

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 7th March

Births

• 1917 - Reginald Maudling
• 1885 - Milton Avery
• 1955 - Al Waleed Bin Talal
• 1962 - Taylor Dane
• 1980 - Laura Prepon

Deaths

• 1975 - Kate Seredy
• 1999 - Stanley Kubrick
• 1904 - Theodor Herzl
• 1967 - Alice B. Toklas
• 1997 - Martin Kippenberger