Australian - Director | September 17, 1962 -
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.
Baz Luhrmann
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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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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