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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

Baz Luhrmann

My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Facts Stories Wife
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 LUHRMANN

Cinema Excitement Needs
Don’t worry about the future.
BAZ LUHRMANN

About Future Worry
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Dancing Father Magic
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Asian Creative Cuisine
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Long Race Waste Your Time
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Film People Thinking
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Fashioned Mean Old
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Chance Choices Half
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Age Hip Hop Phrases
I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Believe Cinema Musical
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Culture Form Thinking
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Country Drama Grow Up
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
BAZ LUHRMANN

Advice Hurt Save
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Intriguing Mechanic Stories

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