Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
BAZ LUHRMANNI do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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 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.
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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.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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 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.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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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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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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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 feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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