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"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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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Music gives strength to the soul."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
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"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."
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"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."
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"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."
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"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."
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"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."
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"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"Listen to the song of silence to understand the unsung music of the heart."
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"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
"The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals."
Music
"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
Opera
"With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting."
Setting
"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."
Movies
"There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that."
Movies
"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
"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
Film
"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
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"He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible."
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