Bruce Beresford Quotes

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• It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form…
• Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender…
• The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
• The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
• When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white…
• When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
• At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
• Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
• Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.
• Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
• For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
• In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this…
• In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.
• In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off.…
• Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
• Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
• When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an…
• With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
• He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.
• I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised.

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