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Baz Luhrmann
Baz Luhrmann
Australian Director
Born: Sep 17, 1962
Films Great Love People Think You
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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
You Ugly Myth Dream About Becoming Misunderstood Doll Blonde Being Barbie Turning Who Universal
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
Life Good Not Good Enough Enough Relate Kinship Road Feel Feels Anyone Really Who
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
Love Beautiful You Smart Arrogant Lover Cold Relate Bats Sun Out Find Rather Magnetic Glamorous Like Attractive Built Very Deny Get Place Hard Away Sydney Rains Rainy Pull
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
Great Acceptance Great Things Incredibly Everyone Everything City About Huge Multicultural Tolerant Things Sydney Basis
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
Morning You People Personality Walk Brilliant Ocean Melting Melting Pot Vital Minutes Give Pot Eclectic General Vast Within Mix Italian Blue Suburb Suburban Asian Then Sydney
I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life. Baz Luhrmann
Life Job Think Enriching Directing Take
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler. Baz Luhrmann
Culture Dance Think True Any Form Leveler
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 Great You People Great Deal Party Lost True True Art Deal Practise Art Form Get Quite Form Really Sydney
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders. Baz Luhrmann
Group Member Outsiders Feel Like Any
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
Myth Intriguing Terms Make Because Condition Up Human Human Condition Story Mechanics
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process. Baz Luhrmann
Creative Creative Process Find Walking Process Fundamental
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
Love Food Creative About Above Eclectic Inventive Fresh Cuisine Pacific Asian Sydney
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
Director System Never Studio Like Discussion Listen Where Them Hollywood Engage Speaks Whole
I love dancing. Baz Luhrmann
Love Dancing
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic. Baz Luhrmann
Education Theatre Training Father Made Painting Magic Had Sure Lots Levels
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
Time You Cinema Unleash Back Immediacy Visceral Never Never Forget Excitement Most Opera Does Forget Manage Just Productions Appeal Popular Bring Need
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
Funny Art Dark Say Wow See About Bottom Feel Come Cellar Owning Want Room Really
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
Cinema Will Live Believe Musical Way Got Making Go Form Again Really
Everything I make starts very personally. Baz Luhrmann
Starts Everything Make Very Personally
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway. Baz Luhrmann
World Rest Thirties Australia Just Far Far Away Faraway Away
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
Relationship Simple Passion Old Lost Tell Arabia Scarlett Lawrence Emotional Between Always Get Tumultuous Loved Story Whether Place Epics Faraway
I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.' Baz Luhrmann
Worried Says Someone Perfect Always Am
Fitzgerald was a modernist. Baz Luhrmann
Fitzgerald Modernist
I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity. Baz Luhrmann
Great Me You Creativity Dissertation Know Mean Act Whole Filmmaking
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own. Baz Luhrmann
Own My Own Point Point Of View Always May View Right
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy. Baz Luhrmann
Everyone Opera Wanted Groovy
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