Advice is a form of nostalgia.
BAZ LUHRMANNOpera 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 think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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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.
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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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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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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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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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Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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