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 LUHRMANNBe careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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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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There’s a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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