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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.

Baz Luhrmann

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
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
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
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 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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Art Country Deal Lost People
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
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
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Intriguing Mechanic Stories
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
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
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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 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

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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