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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

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
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
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
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
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
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Intriguing Mechanic 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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