Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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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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 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 mean the future has become old fashioned.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
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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 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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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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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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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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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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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.
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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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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'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.