Baz Luhrmann Quotes

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  • Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

    Song: Everybody's Free
  • So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

    Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
  • You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

  • 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.

    "In the Director’s Chair: Baz Luhrmann". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. December 6, 2010.
  • 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.

    Country  
    "Baz Luhrmann examines early hip-hop in Netflix series". Interview with John Carucci, apnews.com. July 29, 2016.
  • Western films don't do very well in India.

    "Baz Luhrmann (II)". Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
  • I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

    "EXCLUSIVE: Baz Luhrmann Talks Strictly Ballroom". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 03, 2010.
  • It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.

    Source: classic.esquire.com
  • 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.

    The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2007.
  • I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

    "Q&A: Baz Luhrmann interview". The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2007.
  • Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

    Country  
    Source: www.gq.com
  • 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.

    "How we made the epic of Oz". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.
  • All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

    Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
  • I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

  • 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."

    "Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.
  • When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  • A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

    "Strictly Ballroom". www.imdb.com. 1992.
  • I mean the future has become old fashioned.

  • Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

    "Moulin Rouge!". www.imdb.com. 2001.
  • My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

    Source: collider.com
  • 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."

    Source: classic.esquire.com
  • 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.

    Interview With Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
  • In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

  • 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.

    Source: classic.esquire.com
  • I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

  • Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

    "How we made the epic of Oz". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.
  • 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.

  • The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.

  • Don't worry about the future.

    Song: Everybody's Free
  • 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

    Song: Everybody's Free
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