Western films don’t do very well in India.
BAZ LUHRMANNWestern films don’t do very well in India.
BAZ LUHRMANNThere’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.
BAZ LUHRMANNIn 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.
BAZ LUHRMANNThe 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.
BAZ LUHRMANNHaving grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
BAZ LUHRMANNMy wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
BAZ LUHRMANNIt’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
BAZ LUHRMANNAccept certain inalienable truths.
BAZ LUHRMANNBe careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
BAZ LUHRMANNEverything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANNI never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
BAZ LUHRMANNSo, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
BAZ LUHRMANNThe cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
BAZ LUHRMANNI really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANNTo 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.
BAZ LUHRMANNI’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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