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.
BAZ LUHRMANNI don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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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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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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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