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.”
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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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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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