Baz Luhrmann Quotes

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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.
• At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
• So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
• Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
• Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
• The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF...
• Everything I make starts very personally.
• Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
• I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
• I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.
• I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
• I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
• I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
• I mean the future has become old fashioned.
• I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
• I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
• I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
• I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
• I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
• 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…

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