My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
Baz LuhrmannSydney 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 it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.
Baz LuhrmannHaving grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
Baz LuhrmannI 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."
Baz LuhrmannI really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
Baz LuhrmannSydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.
Baz Luhrmann