Baz Luhrmann Net Worth

Baz Luhrmann's Quotes

• All the films I make are about 60% of what I imagine them to be.
• There's no doubt that when you're up for an award you want to win, but, finally, art is not a horse race. If Gladiator (2000) was a great film in its form and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) a great film in its form, which is better? They're just different. It's not a horse race. You can't say, you know, "Gladiator" is so much faster!"
• One of the proud moments for us was Robert Wise, who directed The Sound of Music (1965) and West Side Story (1961), he is the great-great-grandfather of musical cinema, and he said, "I've seen Moulin Rouge! (2001) and the musical has been re-invented." I bring this up because you get that kind of thing and that's wonderful.
• So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
• That's the only plan I've got - to not have a plan.

Interesting Facts about Baz Luhrmann

1. Luhrmann and Catherine Martin's first child, Lillian (Lilly) Amanda Luhrmann, was born in Sydney on Friday, 10th October 2003.
2. His first three films, Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! (2001), were dubbed the "Red Curtain Trilogy", as they all fell under a particular style of filmmaking. He then changed direction and plans to make a trilogy of historical epics. The first of these was to be "Alexander the Great", which was later dropped.
3. Did ballroom dance as a child.
4. His father died the first day of filming Moulin Rouge! (2001).
5. Family once owned a gas station and a farm.
6. In late 2004, he directed the world's most expensive advertisement for Chanel No 5, a 4-minute short film titled "No 5: The Film" starring Nicole Kidman (who he worked with for Moulin Rouge! (2001)) and Rodrigo Santoro. The film ad, about a fairy-tale romance in which Chanel is part of the story but is not what the story is about, cost £18 million and made Kidman a Guinness World Record holder for highest paid actress in a commercial (she netted $3.71 million). Varying length versions of the film ad were shown on television, and - a first for Chanel - in movie theaters. Costumes were designed by Karl Lagerfeld and a score by Claude Debussy. Kidman wore £17m worth of real gems.
7. Son William Alexander Luhrmann was born June 8th, 2005
8. Was among the guests at Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's wedding.
9. Wanted to make a movie about Alexander The Great with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role around the same time as Oliver Stone made his movie Alexander (2004), but this project was dropped.
10. Profiled in "Conversations with Directors: An Anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly", E.M. Walker, D.T. Johnson, eds. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.
11. He was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2001 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Australian society in film direction and production.
12. His favorite films are Star 80 (1983), Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963), War and Peace (1965), Medium Cool (1969) and Fitzcarraldo (1982).
13. Has directed one Oscar nominated performance: Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge! (2001).
14. Editing Australia (2008) in Sydney. [September 2008]
15. Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia [January 2009]
16. The cast of his production of Puccini's opera, "La Boheme," at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 2004 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Ensemble. Performance.
17. Produced a quirky number one record: "Everybody's Free to wear Sunscreen".
18. Baz's parents did Ballroom competitions, thus growing up around the very subject matter of his first three films.