Don’t worry about the future.
BAZ LUHRMANNEverything I make starts very personally.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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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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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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