Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANNIn the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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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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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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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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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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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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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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’ve always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it’s the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia’s passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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There’s a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
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