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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

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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
Everybody
Choices
Chance
Half
Else

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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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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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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.
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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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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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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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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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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Western films don't do very well in India.
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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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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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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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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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In this country, particularly, actually in times that are difficult, or from corners of America where you least expect it, unbelievable pure creativity has welled up. Generally because of the cross-fertilization... a Scott Joplin tune becomes jazz, becomes blues, and becomes rock 'n' roll.
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It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Don't worry about the future.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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