The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
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… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
“Don't waste your time with jealousy. Some times your ahead, some times your behind. The race is long and in the end, it's only… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
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… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement.… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image