He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.
From Bruce Beresford
At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
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.
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised.
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.
I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
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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