I mean the future has become old fashioned.
BAZ LUHRMANNAll 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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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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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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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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Don’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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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’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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