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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.

Baz Luhrmann

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
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
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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
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
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
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
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry

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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