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Bruce Beresford (/ˈbɛrɪsˌfərd/; born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career. Notable films he has directed include Breaker Morant (1980), Tender Mercies (1983), Crimes of the Heart (1986) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

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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.

Art, Drama, Everything, Man, Music

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

Challenges, Challenging, Director, Directors, Scene, Scenes

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.

Art, Houses, Numbers, Song, World

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.

Character, Portraying, Singers, Sounding, Wonderful

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

Cold, Sassy, Saws, Setting, Tree

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

Character, Film, Intentions, Life, Trying, Understand

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.

Camera, Cameras, Cutting, Down And, Movies, Walked

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

Audience, Opera, Popularity, Quite, World

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

Esteemed, Highly, Opera, Revival, Revivals, Song

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.

Astonishing, Hats, Mexico, Photograph, Thing

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

Character, Emotional, Force, Match, Play, Plays

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.

Australia, Full, Growing Up, Men, Nigeria, White Man

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.

Challenges, Fixed, Opera, Relate, Stage, Viewpoints

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.

Ideas, Long, Rehearse, Theatre, Thought

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

Feet, Mexico, Mountain, Mountains, Scenes, Set

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

Hbo, Mature, Think, Thinking

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

Drama, Opera, Play, Singing