Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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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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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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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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