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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.

Baz Luhrmann

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 wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
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
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
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
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
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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

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