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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.

Baz Luhrmann

In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Intriguing Mechanic Stories
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

Moving On Race Time
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Groups Member Outsiders
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Ballroom Fear Half Life
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Groovy Opera Wanted
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
BAZ LUHRMANN

Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Culture Form Thinking
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Directors Hollywood Speak
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Advice Birth Patient
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Around Grow Up Jazz
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Cinema Excitement Needs
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
Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Country Hip Hop Slightly
I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Believe Cinema Musical
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Country Drama Grow Up

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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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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