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 LUHRMANNAccept certain inalienable truths.
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Don’t worry about the future.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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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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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 think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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