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All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Baz Luhrmann

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Baz Luhrmann
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 17
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Mark Anthony Luhrmann
Stories
Melodrama
Good
Determines
Devices
Hide
Determine
Clean
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Shows

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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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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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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
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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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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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