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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

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
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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
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
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
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
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
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
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
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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

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