My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
BAZ LUHRMANNFitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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 always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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