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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
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
When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Country Drama Grow Up
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Advice Birth Patient
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
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 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
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
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
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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

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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