I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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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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