The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
BAZ LUHRMANNI grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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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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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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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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 think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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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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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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The 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.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: “Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.”
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I’ve always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it’s the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia’s passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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When 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.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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 never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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