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.
BAZ LUHRMANNOne of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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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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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Don’t worry about the future.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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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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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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