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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

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
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
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
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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Feels Good Enough Kinship Not
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
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
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
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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.
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Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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

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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