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Baz Luhrmann [1962-0] Australian

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Director, Film director

Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann is 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!.

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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.	Great, Money, Time	101
Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.	Love	102
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.	Morning	103
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.		104
I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.		105
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.		106
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.		107
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.		108
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.		109
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.	Fear	110
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.		111
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.		112
I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.		113
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.		114
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.		115
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.		116
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.		117
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.		118
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.		119
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.		120
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.		121
In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.		122
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.		123
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.		124
I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.		125
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.		126
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.		201
Western films don't do very well in India.		202
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.		203
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.		204
Everything I make starts very personally.		205
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.		206
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.		207
I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.		208
I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'		209
Fitzgerald was a modernist.		210
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.		211
I mean the future has become old fashioned.		212
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.		213
I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.		214
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.		215
I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.		216
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.		217
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.		218
I love dancing.		219
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.'		220
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.		221
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.		222
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.		223

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