I said we should really use an unknown in King David because any actor that you use for such a famous figure, you're going to get a laugh.
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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
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
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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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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
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Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
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So I said to the production company, 'what are we going to Canada for if we're not going to use local actors' And they said to me - and this was something that I was unaware of - 'the accent is different.' And I said, being from Australia, 'what a load of nonsense.' But after I had been here for a few weeks I realized that this was indeed true, the accent is different.
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