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 party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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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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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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