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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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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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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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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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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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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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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