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.
BAZ LUHRMANNOne 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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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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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.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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