At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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’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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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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.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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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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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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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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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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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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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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I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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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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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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Everything I make starts very personally.
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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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