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

Baz Luhrmann

Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
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
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
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
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
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
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
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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 don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Actor Fighting Honesty
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
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
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
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Chemistry Stars Two
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
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
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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Asian Creative Cuisine
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
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Intriguing Mechanic Stories
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half

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