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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

I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
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
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
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
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
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
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
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
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
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
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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’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

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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