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.
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.”
More Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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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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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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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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Western films don’t do very well in India.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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