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 LUHRMANNIt’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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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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Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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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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