Western films don’t do very well in India.
BAZ LUHRMANNOne 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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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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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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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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