The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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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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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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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Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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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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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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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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