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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

Baz Luhrmann

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
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
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
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 mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
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
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
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
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
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
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

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