My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
BAZ LUHRMANNI think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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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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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I’ve seen it three times, is Bondarchuk’s ‘War and Peace.’ Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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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 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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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Don’t worry about the future.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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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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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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