Ive always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether its the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabias passion to get lost in a faraway place. – Baz Luhrmann
Ive 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. – Baz Luhrmann
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and Ive seen it three times, is Bondarchuks War and Peace. Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era. – Baz Luhrmann
I feel funny about owning art. I dont really want to say: Wow, come and see my Monet – its in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar. – Baz Luhrmann
Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. – Joseph Farrell, “About Conversation,” The Lectures of a Certain Professor, 1877