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.
BAZ LUHRMANNThe 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.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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