Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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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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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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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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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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All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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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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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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 feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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