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.
BAZ LUHRMANNSome 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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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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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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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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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 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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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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