Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
BAZ LUHRMANNThere’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.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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 wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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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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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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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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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