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

- Baz Luhrmann

Everything I make starts very personally.

- Baz Luhrmann

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

- Baz Luhrmann

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

- Baz Luhrmann

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

- Baz Luhrmann

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

- Baz Luhrmann

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

- Baz Luhrmann

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…

- Baz Luhrmann

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

- Baz Luhrmann