Baz Luhrmann Quotes

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

Everything I make starts very personally.

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.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.

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

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

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

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

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

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

In this country, particularly, actually in times that are difficult, or from corners of America where you least expect it, unbelievable pure creativity has welled up. Generally because of the cross-fertilization… a Scott Joplin tune becomes jazz, becomes blues, and becomes rock ‘n’ roll.