Bruce Beresford Quotes
With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
-
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
-
I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
-
The apartheid system renounces no violence.
-
I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
-
When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
-
I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
-
I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
-
I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
-
When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
-
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
-
Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
-
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
-
It's great fun to play with a really good band.
-
I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
-
With social media, you don't just publish a book and figure you've done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation. It means, though, that you can connect with your readers like never before, so you don't have to guess what they like - you can ask.
-
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
-
The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
-
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
-
I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.
-
It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.
-
Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.
-
With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
