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.
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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Don’t worry about the future.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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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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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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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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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