All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
BAZ LUHRMANNIt’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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’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.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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