You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
BAZ LUHRMANNI 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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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: “Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.”
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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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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 ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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