Zitat des Tages von Baz Luhrmann:
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.
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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.
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
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.
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
I love dancing.
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.
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.
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.
Everything I make starts very personally.
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.
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.
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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.
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.