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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Like the dawn upon a dream Slowly through the scented gloom Crept once more the ruddy gleam O'er the friendly nursery room. There, before our waking eyes, Large and ghostly, white and dim, Dreamed the Flower that never dies, Opening wide its rosy rim.
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The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.
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No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.
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The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.
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Being in the studio is a really romantic time.
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Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
