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 LUHRMANNBe careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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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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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All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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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 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 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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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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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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