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

Baz Luhrmann

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
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
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 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
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
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
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
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
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 ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
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
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
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
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

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