Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
BAZ LUHRMANNYour choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
BAZ LUHRMANNI feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
BAZ LUHRMANNI never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
BAZ LUHRMANNAt a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
BAZ LUHRMANNI wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
BAZ LUHRMANNWestern films don’t do very well in India.
BAZ LUHRMANNEnjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhen 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 LUHRMANNI really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANNThe 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.
BAZ LUHRMANNI feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: “Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.”
BAZ LUHRMANNI am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
BAZ LUHRMANNIt’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
BAZ LUHRMANNIn the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANNThere’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.
BAZ LUHRMANNHurt him. Hurt him and save him
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