I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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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 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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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