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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.

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Path, Someone, Pursue, Right Path

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

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Opera, Everyone, Wanted, Groovy

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

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General, Melting, Eclectic, Italian

Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.

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Africa, Asia, Set, Wild West

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, Want, Bottom, Cellar

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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Not Good Enough, Feel, Feels, Kinship

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

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City, Fireworks, Paris, Sydney

Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.

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Love, Away, Very, Sydney

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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City, Everyone, Tolerant, Sydney

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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Old, Tell, Always, Tumultuous

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.

- Baz Luhrmann

Opera, Need, Visceral, Immediacy

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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Made, May, Loves, All-Time

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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Doll, Becoming, About, Misunderstood

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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Love, Happen, Film, Affairs

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

- Baz Luhrmann

Walking, Process, Find, Creative Process

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

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Doing, Bad, Motivated, Doing Good

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 Luhrmann

Love, Asian, About, Fresh

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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Education, Magic, Sure, Levels

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

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Living, Phrase, Fitzgerald, Hip-Hop

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

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I Am, Someone, Always, Worried

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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Stories, Set, Devices, Melodrama

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

- Baz Luhrmann

Art, Deal, True Art, Great Deal

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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Human Condition, Mechanics, Intriguing

I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.

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Date, Movie, Sure, Strictly

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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Rest, World, Away, Thirties

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.

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Hollywood, Like, Studio, Engage

Fitzgerald was a modernist.

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Modernist, Fitzgerald

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

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Think, Enriching, Take, Directing

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

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Flowers, Hair, Everybody, Flowing

I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.

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Bad, Dangerous, Maybe, Reliving

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