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 really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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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There’s a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get 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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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