The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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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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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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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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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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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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