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
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
Western films don't do very well in India.
I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
Accept certain inalienable truths.
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.