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Baz Luhrmann

I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Enriching Jobs Thinking
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Gas Honest Stations Tourists
I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Believe Cinema Musical
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Constraint Creative Want
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
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Hard Manhattan Mugged
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Ideas Needs Path
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Facts Stories Wife
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
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
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
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
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
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
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
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 mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Ballroom Fear Half Life
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Creative Fundamental Process

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