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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. — Baz Luhrmann

I mean the future has become old fashioned. — Baz Luhrmann

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

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

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

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

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz. — Baz Luhrmann

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films. — Carey Mulligan

I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet.' — Brenton Thwaites

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

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

Fitzgerald was a modernist. — Baz Luhrmann

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process. — Baz Luhrmann

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

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

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

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

We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining. — Emile Hirsch

Hurt him. Hurt him and save him — Baz Luhrmann

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

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

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it — Baz Luhrmann

I wish I'd done everything on Earth with you. — Baz Luhrmann

Western films don't do very well in India. — Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders. — Baz Luhrmann

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

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

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

I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom ... without question. — Ridley Scott

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

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

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

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

Everything I make starts very personally. — Baz Luhrmann

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

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

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

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

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

My gift is my song — Baz Luhrmann

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

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