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… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
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… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
“Don't waste your time with jealousy. Some times your ahead, some times your behind. The race is long and in the end, it's only… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share
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… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share
I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement.… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share
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 Copy Share
