Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
BAZ LUHRMANNMy wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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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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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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There’s a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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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’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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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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 don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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