I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
BAZ LUHRMANNI really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
-
-
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
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 LUHRMANN -
Accept certain inalienable truths.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
BAZ LUHRMANN -
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
BAZ LUHRMANN -
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
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 -
Don’t worry about the future.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN