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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

Baz Luhrmann

I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
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
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Circus Falling Love People
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
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
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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Film People Thinking
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’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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

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