One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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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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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I’ve seen it three times, is Bondarchuk’s ‘War and Peace.’ Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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