Bruce Beresford Quotes
On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
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I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
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I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.
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I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.
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At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did work quite hard.
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I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion.
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The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.
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On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.
