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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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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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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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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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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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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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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