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.
BAZ LUHRMANNDon’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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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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 mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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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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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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 feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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