If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
BAZ LUHRMANNI 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.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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