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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

In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
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
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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.
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Epic Passion Simple
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Circus Falling Love People
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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Asian Creative Cuisine
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
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
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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May Point Of View Views

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