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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.

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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Directors Hollywood Speak
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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Clean Shows Stories
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Advice Form Nostalgia
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Acceptance Cities Multicultural
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

People Three War
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
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
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Audience Thing Way
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Actor Fighting Honesty
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
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 wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
Western films don’t do very well in India.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Film India Wells
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Fashioned Mean Old

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