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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.”

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Directors Hollywood Speak
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
All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Clean Shows Stories
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Long Race Waste Your Time
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
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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People Three War
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
BAZ LUHRMANN

Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Dream Ends Life Live
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Adult Age Watches
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Audience Thing Way
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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Country Drama Grow Up
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
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Advice Birth Patient
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
BAZ LUHRMANN

May Point Of View Views

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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