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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.

Baz Luhrmann

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
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
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
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
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
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
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
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
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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Dancing Father Magic
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
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
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

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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