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.
BAZ LUHRMANNEverything I make starts very personally.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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 ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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The 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.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply 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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