I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANNI think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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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 wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply 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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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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