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.
BAZ LUHRMANNIf Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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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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To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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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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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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