108 Quotes by Baz Luhrmann

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

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

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

Understand that friends come and go. But a precious few, who should hold on.

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

Western films don’t do very well in India.

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

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.

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