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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

Baz Luhrmann

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
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Age Hip Hop Phrases
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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May Point Of View Views
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
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
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
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
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
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
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
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
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Actor Fighting Honesty
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
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
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
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
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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Asian Creative Cuisine
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
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

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