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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

Baz Luhrmann

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 am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
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
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
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
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Circus Falling Love People

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