All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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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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