All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
BAZ LUHRMANNEverything I make starts very personally.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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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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When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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 think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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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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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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