Bruce Beresford Quotes
Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
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I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.
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When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
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If I'm feeling really, really crappy, it sounds so cliche, but if I wake up extra early in the morning and do some sort of physical activity, I usually feel a little bit better. Or I do other things that make me happy.
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Definitely, I got a reputation growing up playing on the guys' hockey teams. The guys knew how tough I was because I played with them. I got quite a good reputation for beating up boys going up through school.
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One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.
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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
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Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
