In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get 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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