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.
BAZ LUHRMANNAll good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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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 am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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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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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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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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