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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
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
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 grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
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’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
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
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
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
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
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 wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking

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