Baz Luhrmann Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.”

“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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