Quotes by Bruce Beresford - Page 1

There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Dark
Bright
Every
Cloud
Spot
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For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Challenges
Dialogue
Directors
Scene
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I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Upset
Nominated
Surprised
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In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Opera
Permanent
Views
Floyd
Operas
Repertoire
View
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I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Opera
Staging
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The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Opera
Revival
Song
Esteemed
Popular
Operas
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At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Film
Hbo
Mature
Thinking
Well-Informed
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Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Feet
Mexico
Mountain
Shooting
Difficult Thing
Most Difficult Thing
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Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Drama
Opera
Play
Singing
Directing
Similar
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With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Character
Film
Trying
Author
Intentions
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Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Directors
Film
Fragments
Moments
Satisfied
Shot
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With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Cold
Produce
Sassy
Saws
Setting
Tree
Correct
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The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Art
Attendance
Numbers
Opera
Song
Art Form
Houses
Popular
Rates
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When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Character
Emotional
Opera
Play
Develops
Match
Plays
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On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Directors
Fixed
Viewpoints
Watches
Viewpoint
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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.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Astonishing
Hats
Mexico
Photograph
Photographs
Wearing
Mexicans
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Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Opera
Popularity
World
World Nothing More
Apart
Commissioned
Ensure
Operas
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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 / Film Director
Men
Australia
Growing Up
Nigeria
Shock
White Man
Suddenly
Unit
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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 / Film Director
Cameras
Cutting
Down And
Silent
Silent Movies
Acted
Camera
Walked
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There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Brilliant
Directors
Want
Way
Movies Always Me
Movies Me Way
Handled
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In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Challenges
Fixed
Lighting
Opera
Relate
Viewpoints
Sets
Viewpoint
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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.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Character
Connecting
No Point
Notes
Portraying
Singers
Standing
Wonderful
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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.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Finance
Government
Australia
Enlightened
Fund
Moving
Scripts
Bureau
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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 Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Australia
Australian
Budget
Budget Film
Combined
Compared
Fee
Low-Budget
Mercies
Tender
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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 antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Art
Music
Drama
Glorious
Opera
Art Music Man
Antiquated
Art Form
Attract
Essential
Repository
Young People
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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.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Ideas
Long
Opera
Rehearsal
Theatre
Best Good Experience
Began
Directing
Best Experience Good
Good Idea
Rehearse
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When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Chatting
Direct
Minutes
Money Enough People
Miss
Daisy
Entertain
Money People Enough
Well Enough
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When we were trying to get the money together for the film, one reason that was consistently given for not investing in it was that everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Kitchen
People
Trying
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I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce this kind of music in a camp? All the prison camp stories I've seen, and heard of, were about the heroism of men. As I researched this and heard the music, I realized that women were heroic too, on just as grand a scale. And their treatment was just as appalling.
Bruce Beresford / Film Director
Men
Crafts
People
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