Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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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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 feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Don’t worry about the future.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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