I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANNI really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
BAZ LUHRMANNI think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
BAZ LUHRMANNI 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 LUHRMANNThe party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
BAZ LUHRMANNThe cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
BAZ LUHRMANNHaving grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
BAZ LUHRMANNAustralia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
BAZ LUHRMANNAt a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
BAZ LUHRMANNIf Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
BAZ LUHRMANNIn the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
BAZ LUHRMANNBe careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
BAZ LUHRMANNI 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.
BAZ LUHRMANNMy wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
BAZ LUHRMANNYou really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
BAZ LUHRMANNWhy live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
BAZ LUHRMANNAdvice is a form of nostalgia.
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