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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.

Baz Luhrmann

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
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
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
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
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 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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Acceptance Cities Multicultural
Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
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Moving On Race Time
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
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Ideas Needs Path
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
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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Dancing Father Magic
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry

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