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 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.”
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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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 mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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 never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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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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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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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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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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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.
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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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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.
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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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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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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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