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.”
BAZ LUHRMANNHaving grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I’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.
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Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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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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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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