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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.

Baz Luhrmann

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

Clean Shows Stories
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
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Circus Falling Love People
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
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
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
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
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
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Dream Ends Life Live

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