I mean the future has become old fashioned.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhy live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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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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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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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