Baz Luhrmann on auditions
Baz Luhrmann57 quotes“The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.”
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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.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann Don’t worry about the future.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann 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.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann Accept certain inalienable truths.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann 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.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
Baz LuhrmannBaz Luhrmann Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.
Brady CorbetBrady Corbet If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.
Bill NighyBill Nighy I had been playing with my local band, Skinny Cat. I had been to quite a few auditions before UFO, managed to get the gig and then not want to do it!
Bernie MarsdenBernie Marsden My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
Bebe NeuwirthBebe Neuwirth I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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