Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
BAZ LUHRMANNAccept certain inalienable truths.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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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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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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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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Don’t worry about the future.
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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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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