Baz Luhrmann famous quotes

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Half

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Wife #Stories #Facts

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.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Not Good Enough #Feels #Kinship

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

#Dream #Ugly Duckling #Self

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

#Beautiful #Travel #Smart

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

#Moving On #Time #Race

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Hip Hop #Age #Phrases

Everything I make starts very personally.
-- Baz Luhrmann

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Views #May #Point Of View

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Perfect #Worried

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Honesty #Fighting #Actors

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Groups #Outsiders #Members

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Jazz #Grew Up #Grew

I mean the future has become old fashioned.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Mean #Old Fashioned

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Doe #Way #Audience

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Believe #Musical #Cinema

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

#Directors #Hollywood #Speak

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

#Doe #Needs #Cinema

Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Stars #Two #Chemistry

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Thinking #People #Film

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF...
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Race #Long #Ends

Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Hurt #Advice

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Travel #Light #Cities

I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Creativity #Mean #Filmmaking

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

#Australia #World #Far Away

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Creative #Fundamentals #Process

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

#Stories #Intriguing #Mechanic

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

#Creative #Asian #Cuisine

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Art #People #Lost

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

#Art #Dark #Want

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Advice #Patient #Birth

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Creative #Want #Constraints

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Age #Adults #Watches

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Stories #Shows #Devices

Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Dream #Live Life #Ends

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Trust Yourself #You Can Do It

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

#Country #Growing Up #Drama

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Opera #Groovy #Wanted

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Ideas #Needs #Path

When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Falling In Love #People #Circus

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Father #Dancing #Magic

Western films don't do very well in India.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#India #Film #Wells

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

#Passion #Epic #Simple

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

#Acceptance #Cities #Multicultural

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Flower #Hair

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

#War #People #Three

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Jobs #Thinking

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Actors #Doing Good #Motivated

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Thinking #Culture #Form

Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Growing Up #Book #Passion