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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

Baz Luhrmann

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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Art Country Deal Lost People
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
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
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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Dancing Father Magic
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
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
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
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
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

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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