Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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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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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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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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