"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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Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

Baz Luhrmann

#Stories Quotes #Shows Quotes #Devices Quotes

“I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am, and dance whenever I want to.”
“That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.”
“The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.”
“She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.”
“I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.”
“All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.”
“Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.â€ ~ Liberty Jones”
“We are all pilgrims on an elusive and endless road... Despite our attempts to build lives on stone foundations, our spirits continuously flow. Endless streams of consciousness ripple through our minds.”

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