The Story of Film: An Odyssey (TV Mini Series)

New American Independents & the Digital Revolution (2011)

Baz Luhrmann: Self - Interviewee

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Baz Luhrmann - Interviewee : That's where the romanticism comes in, is that we're making something that happens in life *better* than it is in life. Bigger than it is in life.

  Mark Cousins - Presenter : Better and bigger than life. Exactly what many movies makers aimed for in the last days of digital, at the end of the old millennium. The story of film was full of the fizz and feedback of those days. And the rapture of self-loss. But then came the 21st century.

• Baz Luhrmann - Interviewee : Shakespeare and Bollywood cinema had something in common. And what they had in common was the blindness to taste or style or any of those imposed ideals about art. What they were singularly focused on was the engagement of as many human beings as possible, from as many types of humanity, to be moved and touched by story, to deliver a big idea. A big idea through an emotional experience.

• Baz Luhrmann - Interviewee : [walking through the thought process of making Romeo + Juliet, 1996]  The audience know this is going to happen. How can it happen in a way in which their delicious expectation and enjoyment of it's-going-to-happen, be suspended so that then it happens, it's a surprise they knew was going to happen? It was perplexing.

• Baz Luhrmann - Interviewee : [walking through the thought process of making Romeo + Juliet, 1996]  The audience knows this is going to happen. How can it happen in a way in which their delicious expectation and enjoyment of it's-going-to-happen, be suspended so that then it happens, it's a surprise they knew was going to happen? It was perplexing.