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Everything I make starts very personally.

Baz Luhrmann

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
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
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
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
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
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
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
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
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 am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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Gas Honest Stations Tourists
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

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