Stephen Daldry Quotes

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• The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new writing,…
• As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.
• I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.
• I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.
• I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
• I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.
• I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as…
• One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
• Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.
• There has been one defining production for me in each decade.
• They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.
• When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?
• You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre…
• Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the…
• At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to…
• England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and…
• Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a…
• I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I…
• I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the…
• I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a…

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