Baz Luhrmann Quotes

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

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

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.'

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

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

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

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

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

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

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

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

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.

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

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

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

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

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

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

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

Western films don't do very well in India.

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

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

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

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

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

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

I wish I'd done everything on Earth with you.

Everything I make starts very personally.

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

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

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

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

My gift is my song

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

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.

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.

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

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

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

Fitzgerald was a modernist.

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

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

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

Hurt him. Hurt him and save him

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

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.