The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhy live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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 really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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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 grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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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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 always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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Opera 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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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