It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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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 wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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 think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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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 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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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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