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
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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 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.
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.
My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.
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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.