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Baz Luhrmann

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Ideas Needs Path
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Around Grow Up Jazz
Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Everything Make Personally Start
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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Circus Falling Love People
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Long Race Waste Your Time
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Adult Age Watches
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
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 LUHRMANN

Cinema Excitement Needs
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Groovy Opera Wanted
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.”
BAZ LUHRMANN

Art Bottom Cellar Dark Want
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Auditions Cold Process
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Dancing Father Magic

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