If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
BAZ LUHRMANNIf Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
BAZ LUHRMANNI really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANNIn the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
BAZ LUHRMANNThe cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
BAZ LUHRMANNThe race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
BAZ LUHRMANNIn the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhy live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
BAZ LUHRMANNI’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.
BAZ LUHRMANNAustralia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
BAZ LUHRMANNLook, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
BAZ LUHRMANNI don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
BAZ LUHRMANNI think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
BAZ LUHRMANNAccept certain inalienable truths.
BAZ LUHRMANNYou really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
BAZ LUHRMANNTrust yourself that you can do it and get it
BAZ LUHRMANNI grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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