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.
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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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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 mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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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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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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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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