I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
BAZ LUHRMANNI wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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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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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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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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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’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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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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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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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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