I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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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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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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