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

Baz Luhrmann

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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
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 like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
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
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
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
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
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
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
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion 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
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
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself

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