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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.

Baz Luhrmann

In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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Feels Good Enough Kinship Not
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
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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
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
Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
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Moving On Race Time
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
I’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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Epic Passion Simple
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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Circus Falling Love People
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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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Country Drama Grow Up
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Chemistry Stars Two
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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Art Bottom Cellar Dark Want
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
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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Ideas Needs Path
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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Constraint Creative Want
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

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