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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

Baz Luhrmann

I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
BAZ LUHRMANN

Always Perfect Someone Worried
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Long Race Waste Your Time
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Adult Age Watches
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
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
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Intriguing Mechanic Stories
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
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Actor Fighting Honesty
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Ballroom Fear Half Life
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Asian Creative Cuisine
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
Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Everything Make Personally Start
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Country Drama Grow Up
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Creative Fundamental Process
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
BAZ LUHRMANN

Advice Hurt Save

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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