So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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 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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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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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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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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