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Everything I make starts very personally.

Baz Luhrmann

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
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
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
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
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 feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
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
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
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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
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
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
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
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

Everything I make starts very personally.

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