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

Baz Luhrmann

I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: “Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.”
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Art Bottom Cellar Dark Want
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
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
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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Asian Creative Cuisine
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
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
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Actor Fighting Honesty
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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May Point Of View Views
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
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
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Ideas Needs Path
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
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
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
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
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders

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