Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANNEverything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhen 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 LUHRMANNAustralia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
BAZ LUHRMANNI always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
BAZ LUHRMANNHaving grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
BAZ LUHRMANNThere’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.
BAZ LUHRMANNUltimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhy live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
BAZ LUHRMANNIn the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANNHurt him. Hurt him and save him
BAZ LUHRMANNThe cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
BAZ LUHRMANNFitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
BAZ LUHRMANNI wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
BAZ LUHRMANNAccept certain inalienable truths.
BAZ LUHRMANNDon’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
BAZ LUHRMANNTo 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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