Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
BAZ LUHRMANNThe cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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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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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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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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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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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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