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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.

Baz Luhrmann

I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
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
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
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
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
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
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
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
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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May Point Of View Views
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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Asian Creative Cuisine
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
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
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
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
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
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
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
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
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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