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
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.
I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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.
To say it is a complex and large-scale undertaking is an understatement and I cannot formally announce the project until all of the crucial elements are secure.
We set it in 1899 to reflect where we are,
Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.