I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
BAZ LUHRMANNAccept certain inalienable truths.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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