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.
BAZ LUHRMANNI 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.”
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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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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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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