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
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
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 its that mix of people, its that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality. – Baz Luhrmann
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry. – Baz Luhrmann
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. Im not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And Im certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. – Rowan Atkinson