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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
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
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
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
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
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 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
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
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
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
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
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
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

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