Bruce Beresford Quotes

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.

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

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

I'd like to direct more operas.

I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

I love theater. I really want to go back to it.

I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

There are always leading characters. There are always complex characters; there are very rewarding plays with great directors and tremendous playwrights, yeah. I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.

Opera is really fun.

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected.

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.