Baz Luhrmann
Baz Luhrmann
Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmannis an Australian film director, screenwriter and producer best known for The Red Curtain Trilogy, comprising his romantic comedy film Strictly Ballroom, the romantic drama Romeo + Juliet, and the pastiche-jukebox musical Moulin Rouge!. His 2008 film Australia is an epic historical romantic drama film starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. His 2013 drama The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 September 1962
CitySydney, Australia
CountryAustralia
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.
There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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.
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.