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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.

Baz Luhrmann

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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Acceptance Cities Multicultural
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Intriguing Mechanic Stories
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
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
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
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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Gas Honest Stations Tourists
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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Clean Shows Stories
Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
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Moving On Race Time
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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Directors Hollywood Speak
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
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
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Actor Fighting Honesty
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
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
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
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

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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