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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

Baz Luhrmann

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
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
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Dancing Father Magic
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.”
BAZ LUHRMANN

Art Bottom Cellar Dark Want
To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Gas Honest Stations Tourists
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Dream Ends Life Live
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 grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Around Grow Up Jazz
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Chance Choices Half
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

Moving On Race Time
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Book Growing Passion Up
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
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Hard Manhattan Mugged
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Audience Thing Way
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Acceptance Cities Multicultural

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