I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
BAZ LUHRMANNI always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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I 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.”
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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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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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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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So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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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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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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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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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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