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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More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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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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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Australia, 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 never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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