Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
BAZ LUHRMANNThe cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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 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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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I 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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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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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 never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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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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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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