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 LUHRMANNI am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
-
-
Accept certain inalienable truths.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
Western films don’t do very well in India.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
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 LUHRMANN -
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
BAZ LUHRMANN -
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
BAZ LUHRMANN -
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
BAZ LUHRMANN