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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

When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Circus Falling Love People
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
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I’ve seen it three times, is Bondarchuk’s ‘War and Peace.’ Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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People Three War
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Age Hip Hop Phrases
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
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
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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Acceptance Cities Multicultural
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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Country Far Away World
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
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

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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