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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.
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Directors Hollywood Speak
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
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
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
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
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
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
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
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
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
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
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
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
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells

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