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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

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
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
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
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
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
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
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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 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
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
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
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
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
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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Constraint Creative Want
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
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
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
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
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
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
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth

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