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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

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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Country Hip Hop Slightly
I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: “Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.”
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Art Bottom Cellar Dark Want
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
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
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
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
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
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
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
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Ideas Needs Path
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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.
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Gas Honest Stations Tourists
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
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
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
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

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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