When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.

In 1995 his film Silent Fall was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival. Career
Beresford returned to Australia in 1970 to make his first feature film The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and spent the next 10 years working in Australia's developing film industry. k.

Bruce Beresford (born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.