"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."
-Baz Luhrmann
technologyView Quote
"I 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 Luhrmann
posted in funny
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry."
-Baz Luhrmann
relationshipView Quote
"I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place."
-Baz Luhrmann
relationshipView Quote
"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."
-Baz Luhrmann
peaceView Quote
"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 it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality."
-Baz Luhrmann
morningView Quote
"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."
-Baz Luhrmann
foodView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice."
-Joey Lauren Adams
funnyView Quote
"But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that."
-Wanda Sykes
funnyView Quote
"It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world."
-Artie Lange
funnyView Quote
"I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business."
-Wanda Sykes
funnyView Quote
"When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group."
-Shirin Ebadi
funnyView Quote
"So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life."
-Piper Perabo
funnyView Quote