Australian - Director | September 17, 1962 -
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
Baz Luhrmann
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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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.
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I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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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.
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I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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