Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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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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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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Opera 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.
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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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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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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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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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