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 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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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 feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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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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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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