I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce this kind of music in a camp? All the prison camp stories I've seen, and heard of, were about the heroism of men. As I researched this and heard the music, I realized that women were heroic too, on just as grand a scale. And their treatment was just as appalling.
Bruce BeresfordWith Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
Bruce BeresfordWhen the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
Bruce BeresfordFilm is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
Bruce Beresford