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.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhy live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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 like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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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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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