Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
BAZ LUHRMANNThere’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 the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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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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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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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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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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