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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
Don't worry about the future.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
Accept certain inalienable truths.
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
Everything I make starts very personally.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Western films don't do very well in India.
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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.