You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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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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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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