“Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in t...” — Baz Luhrmann Quote

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.

Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

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.

There's a heavy hip-hop influence in my music, some trap influence, but it's always lyrical.

I'm not in that state of mind that I was back in '86 - hip-hop is not in that state of mind that it was back in '86. Times change. I change.

I was about nine years old when I first heard Wu-Tang's 'C.R.E.A.M.' Before that, I didn't know anything about rap or hip-hop. I was just into Korean pop.

I rap and I sing, so then you've got a bit of hip-hop in there. I'm Jamaican, so you got a bit of dancehall. And I'm from London, so there's a bit of London things in there... And at sometimes, it's a little bit Afrobeat.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.