Baz Luhrmann Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“Western films don't do very well in India.”

“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 mean the future has become old fashioned.”

“Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.”

“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.”