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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

Baz Luhrmann

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Adult Age Watches
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
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
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
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
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
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
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
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
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 wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
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
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel

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