I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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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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There’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.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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