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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.
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Country Far Away World
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
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 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
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
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 really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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Believe Cinema Musical
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
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
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
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Chemistry Stars Two
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
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia

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

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