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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

Baz Luhrmann

In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
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
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
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
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 think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
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
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
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
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
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried

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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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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