In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
BAZ LUHRMANNI do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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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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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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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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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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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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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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 do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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