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.
BAZ LUHRMANNAustralia, 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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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