Quotes by Baz Luhrmann - Page 2

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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Directors
Discussion
Hollywood
Speak
Speaks
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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."
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Art
Dark
Want
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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.'
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Funny
Bottom
Dark
Wow
Cellar
Room
Owning
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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 Luhrmann / Film Director
Human Condition
Intriguing
Mechanic
Myth
Stories
Condition
Mechanics
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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 Luhrmann / Film Director
Moving On
Time
Long
Race
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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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Asian
Creative
Cuisine
Eclectic
Pacific
Sydney
Inventive
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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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Country
Drama
Growing Up
Landscape
Vastness
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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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Ballroom
Date
Strictly
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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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Asia
Contemporary
Epic
Wild West
Africa
Wild
Historically
Realities
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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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Acceptance
Cities
Great Things
Huge
Multicultural
Sydney
Everyone
Basis
Incredibly
Tolerant
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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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Gas Stations
Honest
Tourists
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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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
War
All Time
Cinema
People
Soviet
Three
War Peace Great
Loves
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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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Dream
Barbie
Becoming
Becoming Who You Are
Blonde
Misunderstood
Myth
Ugly
Ugly Duckling
Universal
Being
Turning
Doll
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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 Luhrmann / Film Director
Arabia
Epic
Passion
Simple
Epics
Faraway
Lawrence
Scarlett
Tumultuous
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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 Luhrmann / Film Director
Cinema
Doe
Excitement
Immediacy
Manage
Needs
Never Forget
Opera
Productions
Visceral
Appeal
Unleash
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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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Ocean
Blue
Interesting Life
Sun
Life Myself Your
Bad Thing
Reliving
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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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Country
Creativity
Rocks
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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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Ocean
Morning
Asian
Blue
Brilliant
Eclectic
Italian
Melting
Melting Pot
Minutes
Sydney
Within
General
Vast
Walk
Mix
Suburb
Vital
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Another Time
Drunk
Explanation
Willing
Time Money Great
Great Gatsby
Provide
Reflected
Says
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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.
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
Travel
Arrogant
Attractive
Bats
Beautiful
Built
Cold
Deny
Glamorous
Hard
Magnetic
Relate
Smart
Sun
Sydney
Very
Away
Find
Lover
Place
Pull
Rains
Rather
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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."
Baz Luhrmann / Film Director
New York
Eye
Night
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