All Stephen Daldry Quotes
- I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time… Always Wanted
- I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is it still possible,… Absolutely
- I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that… Couple
- I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this… Better
- I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie… Angeles
- If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could… Action
- In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability… Act
- Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved… Appropriate
- It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap.… Absolute
- Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times… Action
- The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start… Changing
- The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that,… Been
- The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all… All
- There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the… Churchill
- Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and… Course
- With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the… Coming