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 LUHRMANNI wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don’t manage that – but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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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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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I’ve seen it three times, is Bondarchuk’s ‘War and Peace.’ Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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