I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
BAZ LUHRMANNIn the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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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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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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 never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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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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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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