I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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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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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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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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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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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