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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

Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Audience Thing Way
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Age Hip Hop Phrases
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
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
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
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

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