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So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

Baz Luhrmann

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Ballroom Fear Half Life
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
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Directors Hollywood Speak
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.
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Feels Good Enough Kinship Not
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
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
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
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
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don’t manage that – but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Cinema Excitement Needs
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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Believe Cinema Musical
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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
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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Art Country Deal Lost 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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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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