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 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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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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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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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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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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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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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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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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