I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANNAt a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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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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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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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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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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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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