Baz Luhrmann quotes
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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.”
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : "In the Director’s Chair: Baz Luhrmann". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. December 6, 2010.
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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”
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital
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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.”
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : "How we made the epic of Oz". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.
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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.”
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : "Baz Luhrmann's Despair, Drive and Gamble Behind 'Great Gatsby'" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 24, 2013.
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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.”
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : "EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann Talks Strictly Ballroom". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 03, 2010.
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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.”
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : "Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.
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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.”
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : Interview With Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
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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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“Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.”
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : Song: Everybody's Free
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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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“At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.”
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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.”
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
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“Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.”
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“Trust yourself that you can do it and get it”
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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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“In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.”
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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.”
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : "EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann Talks Strictly Ballroom". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 03, 2010.
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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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“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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“Western films don't do very well in India.”
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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.”
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : "How we made the epic of Oz". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.
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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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“In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.”
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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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“I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.”
-- Baz LuhrmannSource : "Baz Luhrmann (II)". Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
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“I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.”
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“I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.”
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“Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.”
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