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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

Baz Luhrmann

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
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
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
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
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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Country Hip Hop Slightly
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
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
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 grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
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
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
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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Asian Creative Cuisine
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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Feels Good Enough Kinship Not
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 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
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
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife

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