I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANNAustralia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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 race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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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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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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