I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
BAZ LUHRMANNIn 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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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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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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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 always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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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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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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