My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
BAZ LUHRMANNDon’t worry about the future.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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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I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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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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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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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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Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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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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