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At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
- Bruce Beresford
#I Think
#Make
#Mature
#Quite
#Think
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
- Bruce Beresford
#Drama
#Opera
#Play
#Singing
#Way
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
- Bruce Beresford
#Director
#Film
#Same
#Satisfied
#Shot
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 Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.
- Bruce Beresford
#Anything
#Australia
#Budget
#Done
#Film
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.
- Bruce Beresford
#Big
#Everyone
#Mexico
#Nobody
#Seen
In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.
- Bruce Beresford
#Find
#Permanent
#Place
#View
#Will
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.
- Bruce Beresford
#Camera
#Down
#Everybody
#Movies
#Silent
I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
- Bruce Beresford
#About
#Been
#Interested
#Like
#Opera
I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised.
- Bruce Beresford
#Because
#Get
#Little
#Nominated
#Upset
I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.
- Bruce Beresford
#Best
#Experience
#Good
#Long
#Me
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 man in this unit full of black men.
- Bruce Beresford
#Black
#Culture
#Man
#Men
#White
He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.
- Bruce Beresford
#He
#Look
#Terrible
#Why
#Wrong
For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
- Bruce Beresford
#Dialogue
#Director
#Most
#Scenes
There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.
- Bruce Beresford
#Bright
#Cloud
#Dark
#Every
#Spot
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 but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
- Bruce Beresford
#Art
#Drama
#Man
#Music
#People
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 government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
- Bruce Beresford
#Australia
#Finance
#Go
#Government
#Kick
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