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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
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
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
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
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’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
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
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

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