My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
BAZ LUHRMANNI grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Don’t worry about the future.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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 cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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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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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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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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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.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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