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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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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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 never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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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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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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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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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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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