Baz Luhrmann quotes

A life lived in fear is a life half lived. (Baz Luhrmann)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks. View quote
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Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. View quote
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Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. View quote
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own. View quote
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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)
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love. View quote
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Everything I make starts very personally. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.' View quote
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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)
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz. View quote
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler. View quote
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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. View quote
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process. View quote
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