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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

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
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
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.
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Cinema Excitement Needs
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
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
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
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
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 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
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
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
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
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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Feels Good Enough Kinship Not
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel

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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