I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
BAZ LUHRMANNWestern films don’t do very well in India.
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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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I’ve always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it’s the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia’s passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don’t manage that – but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I’ve seen it three times, is Bondarchuk’s ‘War and Peace.’ Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: “Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.”
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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