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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

Baz Luhrmann

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
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 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 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
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
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
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
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Moving On Race Time
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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Constraint Creative Want
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
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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