Quote

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

Baz Luhrmann

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Baz Luhrmann
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 17
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Mark Anthony Luhrmann
Jazz
Grew
Around
Love

More quotes by Baz Luhrmann

Image
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.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
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
Image
I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
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.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
Baz Luhrmann
Image
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
Image
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
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
Image
My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
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.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
Accept certain inalienable truths.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
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.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
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
Image
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
Baz Luhrmann
Image
Don't worry about the future.
Baz Luhrmann