Latest Baz Luhrmann Quotes from Interviews

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• The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Auditions, Cold, Process

  Source: www.gq.com

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

  Baz Luhrmann

  Country, Australia, Hip Hop

  Source: www.gq.com

• In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever, The French Connection, and Network. I had a friend who visited New York, and I asked him what it was like. He said, "Oh, it's great. Just wear a coat and don't look anyone in the eye."

  Baz Luhrmann

  New York, Eye, Night

  Source: classic.esquire.com

• It's pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Manhattan, Hard

  Source: classic.esquire.com

• To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Tourists, Gas Stations, Honest

  Source: classic.esquire.com

• 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

  Country, Creativity, Rocks

  "Baz Luhrmann examines early hip-hop in Netflix series". Interview with John Carucci, apnews.com. July 29, 2016.

• My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Wife, Stories, Facts

  Source: collider.com