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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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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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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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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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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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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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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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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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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