Baz Luhrmann Quotes

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Everything I make starts very personally.

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.

Advice is a form of nostalgia.

Don't worry about the future.

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.

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

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.

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.