In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
BAZ LUHRMANNI do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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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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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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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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There’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.
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