I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhy live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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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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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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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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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