At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
BAZ LUHRMANNAustralia, 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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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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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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 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 never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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