Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
BAZ LUHRMANNOne 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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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 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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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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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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Don’t worry about the future.
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