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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

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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Clean Shows Stories
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 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
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
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
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
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
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
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 think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
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
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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

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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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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