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Bruce Beresford Quotes

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

Bruce Beresford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: australian
Birth: August 16, 1940

Topics

Singing Drama Play Way Opera Get

Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris.

Melvin Van Peebles

Change You Go Want Little Big

It's much easier to fail when you're in the pilot, early stage, when it's less expensive and you're exploring than when you're way out the door and you've spent all this money. Industry is smart: structured to have skunkworks and pilot phases.

Money Smart Door You Early Way

Twins have a special bond. They feel safer with each other than with their peers.

Jeanne Phillips

Bond Feel Special Twins Peers Than

My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform.

Responsibility Action Congress Seek

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare.

Michael Ignatieff

Storm War Support Desert Political

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

Rare Industry Conversations Film

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.

Good Game Play First Pine Raised

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

Simon Winchester

Science Society Interesting Find Way

You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

Life Chaos Rest Army My Life You

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

Comfort Zone You Comfort Always Take

I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.

Mary Steenburgen

First Got Movie Jack South Card

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

Birthday Eyes Me Search Long Become

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