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 LUHRMANNI’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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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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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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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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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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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in 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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