Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANNEverything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANNOpera 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.
BAZ LUHRMANNBe careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
BAZ LUHRMANNA life lived in fear is a life half lived.
BAZ LUHRMANNI always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
BAZ LUHRMANNI do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
BAZ LUHRMANNI don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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 LUHRMANNWhy live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
BAZ LUHRMANNThe cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
BAZ LUHRMANNMy wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
BAZ LUHRMANNI grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANNWestern films don’t do very well in India.
BAZ LUHRMANNI never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
BAZ LUHRMANNYou really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
BAZ LUHRMANNI am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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