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.
BAZ LUHRMANNDon’t worry about the future.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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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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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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