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BAZ LUHRMANNThe food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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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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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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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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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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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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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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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