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.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhy live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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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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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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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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 race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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