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
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.
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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.
Russell, Nicole and I have been wanting to do a large Australian piece for a very long time.
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.
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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.