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
BAZ LUHRMANNHurt him. Hurt him and save him
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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 wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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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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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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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