Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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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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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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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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In this country, particularly, actually in times that are difficult, or from corners of America where you least expect it, unbelievable pure creativity has welled up. Generally because of the cross-fertilization... a Scott Joplin tune becomes jazz, becomes blues, and becomes rock 'n' roll.
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Western films don't do very well in India.
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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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It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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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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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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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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I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
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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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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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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.
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In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever, The French Connection, and Network. I had a friend who visited New York, and I asked him what it was like. He said, "Oh, it's great. Just wear a coat and don't look anyone in the eye."
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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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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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 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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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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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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The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Don't worry about the future.
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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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