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.
BAZ LUHRMANNOne 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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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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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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 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 grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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