and then when i did moulin rouge! it was like, why do you want to do the gatsby? please!o gatsby." there's cajoling, convincing, convincing yourself, convincing others. leonardo being a great partner in that process, toby being a great partner in that process. dicaprio and maguire, we should say. yeah. getting them on... a—list hollywood people. yeah, but also artists that want to make sure they're making something different. and so what i'm saying is, i mean, you know, let me just say, all that stuff you identified... yeah. gatsby, rightly, whether you like it or you don't, and whether i made the right choices or not, it's a very quiet internal narration about a very noisy time, about a very brightly coloured, noisy time. so i, rightly or wrongly, exploited that. which is a great cue just to have a little look, another flavour of your movie—making, by having a look at one of the memorable scenes from the great gatsby. let's have a look at this. thanks. i cannot find anyone who knows anything real about mr gatsby. well, i don't care. he gives large parties, and i like lar

slayed moulin rouge. you say, here we go again.ou could take the reviews from strictly ballroom and apply them to pretty much maligned and so forth. but i have never seen this happen before, in his book, he rewrote his review ten years later and has a beat in his book and are actually met him and are actually met him andi and are actually met him and i was really... of course, you're happy that... he decided ten years on that actually he had missed the point? his language was, there was a method to the madness and i could see that, actually, this wasn'tjust kind of campfor actually, this wasn'tjust kind of camp for the sake of it but it was employed in the pursuit ofa but it was employed in the pursuit of a slightly bigger idea. but i suppose my question would then be, d oyou ever reflect and think, you know, many are got a little bit seduced by the fact that hollywood was flinging money at me so that by the time you made the great gatsby, i don't know how much that cost will probably $100 million? yes, around that. roughly. give o

hesitate to bring it up a little bit it was about a performance art fist in paris in late 1800s in the moulin riewj and taint was he was a after east they called him. he was basically very good about inhaling air through his rectum and release it back out and do impressions with that. he could do roosters he could do dogs. he could do human beings he could sing the french national anthem. through his backside he could blow out candles play instruments, this man was very, very talented. and this story did sort of make me choke on a glass of water first time i read it i wouldn't believe this person existed in the first place but i thought it be a little more. i thought i've always been very curious about what is beginning on there. but i like most people i think. but i didn't know much about it. and so i said you know what i'm going to try to see if i can make this a little bit more scientific. learn a little bit more about it. because we're all curious about it and it turned out to be a really fascinating chapter and i did learn a lot in addition to being able to laugh a lot about this guy. so

hesitate to bring it up a little bit about a performance artist in paris in the late 1800s in the moulin rouge. and his talent put it frankly was he was a artiste they called him. he was basically very good about inhaling air through his rectum. he would release it back out and he would do and prescience with that. he could do roosters. he could do dogs. he could do human beings. he could sing the french national anthem through his backside. he can blow out candles, play instruments. this man was very, very talented. this story did sort of make me choke on a glass of water first time i read it. i couldn't believe this existed in first place but but i thougt about it more and i thought i've always been kind of curious about what's going on there, but like most people i think, but i did know much about it. so i said i'm going to try to see if i can make this an little bit more scientific, learn a little more about it because we are all curious about it. it turned out to be a real fascinating chapter. like i said i did learn a lot except to learn to laugh a lot about this guy. a few things

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