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 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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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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All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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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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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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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 do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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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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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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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