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
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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.
Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.
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.'
I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.
We have some of the most extraordinary landscape on the planet and we want to get two of the most extraordinary actors in the world and put them ... in that landscape.