#al

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. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#being #black #culture #full #growing

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. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#best #directing #experience #films #good

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. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#bureau #could #enlightened #films #finance

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#australia #australian #budget #budget film #combined

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. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#brilliant #director #emotions #handled #i

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. ↗

— Alban Berg

#also #composers #disciples #enthusiasm #feeling

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. ↗

— Alban Berg

#any #became #dearest #dearest friend #friend

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature. ↗

— Paul Berg

#barriers #breach #breeding #concern #customary

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ↗

— Paul Berg

#basis #chemistry #dna #emergence #formed

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'. ↗

— Peter Berg

#dialogue #i #less #me #more