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

Baz Luhrmann

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Country Far Away World
I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Believe Cinema Musical
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
Western films don’t do very well in India.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Film India Wells
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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
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
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Groovy Opera Wanted
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
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
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
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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
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

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