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 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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To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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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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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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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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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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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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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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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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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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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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 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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