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 LUHRMANNThe cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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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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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 don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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