You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
BAZ LUHRMANNHaving grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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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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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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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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 think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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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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