Stephen Frears Quotes

• To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

  Stephen Frears

  Successful, Needs, Failing

  "Stephen Frears: 'Audiences aren't fools - their judgement is crucial'" by Nick Fraser, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2010.

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• Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

  Stephen Frears

  Hero, Judgement, Risk

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• It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

  Stephen Frears

  Queens, Blue, Mind

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• I basically just make films that interest me. And I don't want to make the same film twice, you know? But I've never found a franchise, so... I guess I'm lot poorer because of that, but... what astonishes me is that, at my age, I can still find things that interest me. And that's tremendous.

  Stephen Frears

  Age, Want, Film

  Source: blog.bullz-eye.com

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• The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

  Stephen Frears

  Way, Film, Stamps

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.

  Stephen Frears

  Voice, Spirit, Abandon

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

  Stephen Frears

  Jobs, Directors, Actors

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• I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

  Stephen Frears

  Film Directing, Teach, Testimony

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