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
challenges opera too-much
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.
views opera permanent
In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.
moving government australia
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.
opera staging
I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
challenges directors scene
For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
directors film moments
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
ideas long theatre
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.
music art drama
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.
cameraman course exactly films lens moves shot storyboard time work
Well, I storyboard the films from every shot and from every angle. I specify to the cameraman where the camera should be and what lens he should use and then I work out all the moves for the actors. Of course this can change, but I would have to say that 95% of the time the film is done exactly the way I have storyboarded it.
black directors films hope next others point reason scripts women written wrote
I have written a lot of films that didn't get made for one reason or another and I have one called The Women in Black that I hope will get made next year. And there were others that got made that I wrote under different names, I always think that better directors write the scripts because if you can't write, and you don't have anything to say, then what's the point of making films?
casting certainly director directors friends-or-friendship spent strange struck talk talking time wish
I have some director friends who have said that they don't really like working with actors - directors who have said 'I wish they would just get on with it. I don't want to talk to them,' which always struck me as strange because I certainly like talking to actors and I have spent a long time casting them.
He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.
I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised.