“In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges…” — Bruce Beresford

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

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.