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Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

Baz Luhrmann

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Country Far Away World
I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Believe Cinema Musical
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
Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Country Hip Hop Slightly
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Culture Form Thinking
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
BAZ LUHRMANN

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

Constraint Creative Want
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
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
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
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Advice Birth Patient
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
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

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