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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

Baz Luhrmann

The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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 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
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
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
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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Acceptance Cities Multicultural
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
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
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
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Actor Fighting Honesty
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted

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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