Baz Luhrmann quotes

Baz Luhrmann is an Australian director, screenwriter, and producer renowned for his visually striking and musical films. His works, such as "Moulin Rouge!", "Romeo + Juliet", and "The Great Gatsby," are known for their bold style and modern reinterpretations of classic tales. He continues to influence global cinema with his unique vision and storytelling. Here are 49 of his quotes:

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

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

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

Baz Luhrmann

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

Baz Luhrmann

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.

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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.

Baz Luhrmann

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Baz Luhrmann

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Everything I make starts very personally.

Baz Luhrmann

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

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.

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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.

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

Baz Luhrmann

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

Baz Luhrmann

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

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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.

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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

Baz Luhrmann