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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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"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."
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."
Being
"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
Film
"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created."
Art
"I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room."
Experience
"The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals."
Music
"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
"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
Location
"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
"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."
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