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.
BAZ LUHRMANNOpera 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.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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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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 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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Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore 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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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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