I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
BAZ LUHRMANNOpera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don’t manage that – but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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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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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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