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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.

Baz Luhrmann

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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Epic Passion Simple
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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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Country Far Away World
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Country Drama Grow Up
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Audience Thing Way
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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Circus Falling Love People
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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Constraint Creative Want
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
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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People Three War
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: “Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.”
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Art Bottom Cellar Dark Want
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking

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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