Baz Luhrmann Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.”
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“My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.”
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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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“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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“Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.”
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“Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself”
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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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“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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“I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.”
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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 feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.”
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“I mean the future has become old fashioned.”
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“I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.”
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“I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.”
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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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“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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“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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“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 race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF...”
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“If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.”
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“I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.”
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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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“I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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