It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
BAZ LUHRMANNBe careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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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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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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Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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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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