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.
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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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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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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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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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