A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
BAZ LUHRMANNI feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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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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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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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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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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 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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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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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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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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