My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhy live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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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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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