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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

Baz Luhrmann

In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
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
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
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
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
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
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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Gas Honest Stations Tourists
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
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 never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Audience Thing Way

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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