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.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhen you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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