With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
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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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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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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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When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
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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.
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Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.
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Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
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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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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.
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