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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.

Baz Luhrmann

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
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
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
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
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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
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
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
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
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking

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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