Top 71 Luhrmann's Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Luhrmann's

#1. I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.

Bryan Ferry

#2. I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet.'

Brenton Thwaites

#3. I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

Nina Arianda

#4. 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

#5. I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

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

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#7. Fitzgerald was a modernist.

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#8. 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.

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

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#10. 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 have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

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

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#12. In Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann takes the most thrilling moments in a movie musical-the seconds before the actors are about to burst into song and dance, when every breath they take is heightened-and makes an entire picture of such pinnacles.

Elvis Mitchell

#13. Everything I make starts very personally.

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#14. There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets to prance or stomp around in a Ridley Scott or Baz Luhrmann movie.

Joel Edgerton

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

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#16. 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.'

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#17. 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.

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#18. I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.

Dree Hemingway

#19. 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.

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#20. I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.

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

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

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

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#24. What I've always loved about watching movies myself of course that's [Bas] Luhrmann. His Moulin Rouge! is incredible, his Romeo + Juliet. Wow. You know. When I saw those, those really were transformative films for me.

Fredrik Bond

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

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#26. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you wanna do with your life; the most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives; some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.

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

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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

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#31. 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

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#32. 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.

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

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

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

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#36. I mean the future has become old fashioned.

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#37. 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.

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#38. 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

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

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#40. Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.

Tanya Luhrmann

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

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#42. Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.

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#43. 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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#44. 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

#45. I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.

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#46. 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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#47. Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

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#48. Hurt him. Hurt him and save him

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#49. My gift is my song

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

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

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

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#53. Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons, the song of the birds; it is the awareness of all things as holy ...

Tanya Luhrmann

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

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

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

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

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#60. 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.

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