I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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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 am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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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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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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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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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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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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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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 think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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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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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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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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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