Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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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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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 mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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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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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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Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.
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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.
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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
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I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.
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Western films don't do very well in India.
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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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'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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
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I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.