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.
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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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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 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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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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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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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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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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