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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
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Sydney
NSW
Mark Anthony Luhrmann
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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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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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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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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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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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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 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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