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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…
• Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My…
• 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…
• When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being…
• 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…
• 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…

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