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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

Baz Luhrmann

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
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form 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
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 don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Actor Fighting Honesty
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 wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
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
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
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
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
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
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

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