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All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Film People Thinking
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
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 am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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 cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Ballroom Fear Half Life
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
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Epic Passion Simple
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 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
Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Everything Make Personally Start
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Cities Light Travel

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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