I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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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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 never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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