“Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.”

—  Baz Luhrmann

Source: Moulin Rouge!: The Splendid Book That Charts the Journey of Baz Luhrmann's Motion Picture

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Australian film director, screenwriter and producer 1962

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