All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
BAZ LUHRMANNUltimately, 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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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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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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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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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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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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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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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