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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

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
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
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
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
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Age Hip Hop Phrases
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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 the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
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
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
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
I’ve always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it’s the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia’s passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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Epic Passion Simple
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking

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