Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
BAZ LUHRMANNAll good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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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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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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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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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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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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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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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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