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

Baz Luhrmann

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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Directors Hollywood Speak
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Around Grow Up Jazz
I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Believe Cinema Musical
Western films don’t do very well in India.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Film India Wells
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Cities Light Travel
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Epic Passion Simple
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Actors Doing Good Motivated
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Constraint Creative Want
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
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Auditions Cold Process
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Advice Form Nostalgia
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Circus Falling Love People
Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Everything Make Personally Start

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