My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
BAZ LUHRMANNIf Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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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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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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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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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 do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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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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