Bruce Beresford Quotes

#1. I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

David Wenham

#2. No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

Jonathan Edwards

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

Bruce Beresford

#4. We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

Heinz Guderian

#5. 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

#6. Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.

Bruce Beresford

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

Bruce Beresford

#8. Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am a marathon man.

Shel Silverstein

#9. 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

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

Bruce Beresford

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Someone once said that there are always flowers for those who want to find flowers. I think that's true. But I also think that there are always cakes for those who want to find cakes.

C. JoyBell C.

#14. With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

Bruce Beresford

#15. Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

Robert Collyer

#16. In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.

Bruce Beresford

#17. Someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.

Jan Burke

#18. At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

Bruce Beresford

#19. The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. 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

#21. I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from ... I just wanted to study literature and writing.

Gaby Hoffmann

#22. Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

Bruce Beresford

#23. 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

#24. When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

Bruce Beresford

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Bruce Beresford

#29. 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

#30. Mama said, Dreams are different to real life but important too.

Audrey Niffenegger

#31. The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

Bruce Beresford

#32. I mean, I love to try and cook. I'm pretty good, but I'm not saying I'm great.

Nina Dobrev

#33. Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better.

Louis L'Amour

#34. Suzanne glanced over at her, eyebrow raised. "Is there an anaconda?" she asked, like it had suddenly occurred to her she could be totally wrong.
Tamara should only be so lucky. "No, there's no anaconda, I can promise you that." Not even a garden snake.

Erin McCarthy

#35. 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

#36. In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

Thomas Sprat

#37. 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

#38. For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

Bruce Beresford

#39. We are genetically programmed to react to stimuli in our immediate vicinity. Responding to complex issues that we cannot perceive directly requires the application of reasoning, which is less powerful than instinct.

Graeme Simsion

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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.

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