In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
BAZ LUHRMANNMy 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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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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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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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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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 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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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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