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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More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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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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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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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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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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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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