So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
BAZ LUHRMANNSo, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
BAZ LUHRMANNI understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
BAZ LUHRMANNTrust yourself that you can do it and get it
BAZ LUHRMANNI don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
BAZ LUHRMANNI grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANNAustralia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhen you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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 LUHRMANNThe ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
BAZ LUHRMANNFitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
BAZ LUHRMANNI mean the future has become old fashioned.
BAZ LUHRMANNEverything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANNOne 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.
BAZ LUHRMANNI never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
BAZ LUHRMANNI do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
BAZ LUHRMANNIf Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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