If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
BAZ LUHRMANNLook, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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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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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
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