"It's not enough to hit the notes. There……" — Bruce Beresford
"It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying."
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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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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
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I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.
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