All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhen you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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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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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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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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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.
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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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