Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
BAZ LUHRMANNI 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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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 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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Don’t worry about the future.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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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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.
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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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