3 December 2020 Baz Luhrmann 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.
3 December 2020 Baz Luhrmann 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.
3 December 2020 Baz Luhrmann Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
3 December 2020 Baz Luhrmann My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
3 December 2020 Baz Luhrmann 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.’
3 December 2020 Baz Luhrmann 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.
3 December 2020 Baz Luhrmann 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.