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Western films don’t do very well in India.

Baz Luhrmann

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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
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
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
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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.
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Believe Cinema Musical
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
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
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I’ve seen it three times, is Bondarchuk’s ‘War and Peace.’ Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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People Three War
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
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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Asian Creative Cuisine
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Circus Falling Love People
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
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Actor Fighting Honesty
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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May Point Of View Views

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