Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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 always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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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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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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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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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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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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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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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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