All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
BAZ LUHRMANNI don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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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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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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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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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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