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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

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
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
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
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
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
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 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
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I’ve seen it three times, is Bondarchuk’s ‘War and Peace.’ Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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People Three War
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
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
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
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
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Ideas Needs Path
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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Believe Cinema Musical
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
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 grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
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
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
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

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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