Everything I make starts very personally.
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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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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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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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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 mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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 feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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