"In silent movies, they tended to put the……" — Bruce Beresford
"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. Cutting was quite infrequent."
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28 Quotes by Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford has 28 quotes on this site.
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It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is…
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Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in…
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The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
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The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that…
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When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and…
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When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot…
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At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
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Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
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Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody…
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Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
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For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
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In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move.…
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how…
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I acted in millions of TV shows.
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to…
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it…
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I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
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I've acted professionally since I was 16.
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I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it…
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
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