In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANNDon’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
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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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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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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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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 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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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 think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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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
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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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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