Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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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 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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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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