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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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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."

"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."

"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way."

"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
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"With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting."

"Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances."

"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."

"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."

"When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men."

"When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match."

"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."

"In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent."

"The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever."
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