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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."
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"Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds."
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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."
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"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
Location

"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
Opera

"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
Opera

"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."
Music

"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
Film

"With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting."
Setting

"The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals."
Music

"With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life."
Life

"When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen."
Money

"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."
Finance
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