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 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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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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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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So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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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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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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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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