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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

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
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.
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Directors Hollywood Speak
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
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Actor Fighting Honesty
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Intriguing Mechanic Stories
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
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 grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
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
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
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
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
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
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
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
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

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