Bruce Beresford

Director

1940-08-16

Books by Bruce Beresford

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I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
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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.
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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.
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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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At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
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