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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

Baz Luhrmann

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
All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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Clean Shows Stories
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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Dancing Father Magic
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 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
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Chemistry Stars Two
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Age Hip Hop Phrases
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
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
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 terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Intriguing Mechanic Stories
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking

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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