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I thought Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing in Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet.' BRENTON THWAITES Comic books are a big passion of mine.
TARAN KILLAM I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you n...
ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of ...
EMILE HIRSCH When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for...
DAVE MORRIS
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother gro... SHAWN ASHMORE
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and ...
MARY SCHMICH
There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets ... JOEL EDGERTON I always loved comic books when I was growing up, and Spider-Man was definitely a character I gravit...
DRAKE BELL I'll be in 'The Get Down' from the creator Baz Luhrmann, and it takes place in the '...
JUSTICE SMITH
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. ... JAMES D. WATSON
It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to g... SIMON SINEK Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one o...
DAVID CARRADINE
I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who ... MEGAN FOX To some of them it had just been work, ... But some got caught up in the romance of creating comic b...
MICHAEL CHABON I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
BAZ LUHRMANN There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to...
BAZ LUHRMANN I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmma...
BAZ LUHRMANN I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultu...
BAZ LUHRMANN Everything I make starts very personally.
BAZ LUHRMANN The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite...
BAZ LUHRMANN My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, comm...
BAZ LUHRMANN I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
BAZ LUHRMANN I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to sp...
BAZ LUHRMANN In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANN I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
BAZ LUHRMANN When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People f...
BAZ LUHRMANN I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
BAZ LUHRMANN All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show...
BAZ LUHRMANN I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
BAZ LUHRMANN A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
BAZ LUHRMANN I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not goo...
BAZ LUHRMANN One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. I...
BAZ LUHRMANN I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
BAZ LUHRMANN Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then ...
BAZ LUHRMANN Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to ...
BAZ LUHRMANN If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
BAZ LUHRMANN Russell, Nicole and I have been wanting to do a large Australian piece for a very long time.
BAZ LUHRMANN We have some of the most extraordinary landscape on the planet and we want to get two of the most ex...
BAZ LUHRMANN We set it in 1899 to reflect where we are,
BAZ LUHRMANN What I think is extraordinary, apart from the inherent values of the ideas, is that we were experien...
BAZ LUHRMANN She is just a life force to be reckoned with,
BAZ LUHRMANN Moulin Rouge
BAZ LUHRMANN It's meant to be an ultra-romantic story
BAZ LUHRMANN To say it is a complex and large-scale undertaking is an understatement and I cannot formally announ...
BAZ LUHRMANN I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it&...
BAZ LUHRMANN I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s b...
BAZ LUHRMANN Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it ...
BAZ LUHRMANN The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie...
BAZ LUHRMANN If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they&#...
BAZ LUHRMANN I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.
BAZ LUHRMANN Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway...
BAZ LUHRMANN Fitzgerald was a modernist.
BAZ LUHRMANN In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
BAZ LUHRMANN Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it'...
BAZ LUHRMANN When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, tha...
BAZ LUHRMANN You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I dec...
BAZ LUHRMANN I mean the future has become old fashioned.
BAZ LUHRMANN One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's '...
BAZ LUHRMANN Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
BAZ LUHRMANN I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANN I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
BAZ LUHRMANN I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cine...
BAZ LUHRMANN Western films don't do very well in India.
BAZ LUHRMANN The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inve...
BAZ LUHRMANN At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
BAZ LUHRMANN Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly...
BAZ LUHRMANN I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
BAZ LUHRMANN I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
BAZ LUHRMANN Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its...
BAZ LUHRMANN I love dancing.
BAZ LUHRMANN In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; my...
BAZ LUHRMANN I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.
CHAD LINDBERG
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, ... PAUL AUSTER
I love comic books and I love anime. SAMUEL L. JACKSON Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you k...
ADRIAN TOMINE
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - un... ALAN MOORE
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing th... ELVIS PRESLEY
Passion for books is pleasurable. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
ALAN KING
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by ... MEG CABOT
I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing. ZAYN MALIK
Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere. ELI ROTH
Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and ... BILL MUMY I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes And...
DREE HEMINGWAY
I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we ... J. K. SIMMONS
I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it. RITA RUDNER Growing up, I loved the tale of Peter Rabbit and also books on Pippi Longstocking. Pippi was a girl ...
SORAYA DIASE COFFELT
It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that... TA-NEHISI COATES
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She gra... WALTER DEAN MYERS
If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that wer... LEE UNKRICH
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; ... DAVID S. GOYER I don't see them as comic books. I look at them and I see great arcs, pinks against reds; I start bu...
DANIEL O'CONNOR
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. DOROTHY ALLISON
I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to th... ANG LEE I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
RACHEL KUSHNER
Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic... BILL WATTERSON
You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death. BUDDY HACKETT
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty thi... BETTE MIDLER
I felt an enormous responsibility because internationally there's a real passion among kiddies for t... DAVID THEWLIS
