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Baz Luhrmann

Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
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
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
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
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
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Audience Thing Way
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
I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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Believe Cinema Musical
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
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
Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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Country Hip Hop Slightly
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
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
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Ideas Needs Path
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
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
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

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