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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

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Stage

Film

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Still

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

" 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. "

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

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

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Opera

Been

" 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. "

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Show

World

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Film

Done

" 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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Thought

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Government

Finance

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