Everything I make starts very personally.
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.
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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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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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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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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