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Baz Luhrmann

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 mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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Country Hip Hop Slightly
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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Film People Thinking
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
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
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
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
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
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
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted

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