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Baz Luhrmann

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
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
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
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
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: “Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.”
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Art Bottom Cellar Dark Want
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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
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
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
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
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
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted

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