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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 think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
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
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
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
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
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Age Hip Hop Phrases
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
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
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
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
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
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
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
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Chemistry Stars Two
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
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
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
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
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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