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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.

Baz Luhrmann

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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Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
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 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
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
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
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
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
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
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 wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
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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Feels Good Enough Kinship Not
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
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

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