Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
BAZ LUHRMANNAccept certain inalienable truths.
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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’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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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 feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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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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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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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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