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

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Clean Shows Stories
Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANN

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

Adult Age Watches
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
Western films don’t do very well in India.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Film India Wells
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Chemistry Stars Two
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
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Cinema Excitement Needs
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 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
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Advice Birth Patient
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
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Dream Ends Life Live
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Hard Manhattan Mugged
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Circus Falling Love People

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