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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

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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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Country Far Away World
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I’ve seen it three times, is Bondarchuk’s ‘War and Peace.’ Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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People Three War
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
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
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
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
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
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
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
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
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
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

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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