Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
BAZ LUHRMANNAdvice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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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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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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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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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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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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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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 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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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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