Bruce Beresford Quotes

Australian - Director | August 16, 1940 -

There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.

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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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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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He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.

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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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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.

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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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I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised.

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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.

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I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

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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.

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