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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.

Baz Luhrmann

I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Actor Fighting Honesty
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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Film People Thinking
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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People Three War
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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May Point Of View Views
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Age Hip Hop Phrases
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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Cinema Excitement Needs
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
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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Gas Honest Stations Tourists
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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Directors Hollywood Speak
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
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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Intriguing Mechanic Stories
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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Clean Shows Stories
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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Believe Cinema Musical

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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