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.
BAZ LUHRMANNAt a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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There’s a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
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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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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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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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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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