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.
BAZ LUHRMANNIf Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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 the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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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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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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 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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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