Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresfordis 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, Tender Mercies, Crimes of the Heartand Driving Miss Daisy...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth16 August 1940
CountryAustralia
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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.
I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised.
He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.
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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.
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There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.
world opera popularity
Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
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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.
character emotional play
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
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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.
character trying film
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
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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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At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.