Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANNLook, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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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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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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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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