Stephen Daldry Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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 film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.

  Stephen Daldry

  Morning, Catholic, Directors

• 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. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.

  Stephen Daldry

  Criticism, Pieces, Way

  "Stephen Daldry: 'Hollywood? I've never even been there...'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2013.

• 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 a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.

  Stephen Daldry

  Eight, Ideas, Actors

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". Interview with Andy Bailey, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

• 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, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.

  Stephen Daldry

  Successful, Class, People

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". Interview with Andy Bailey, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

• 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 the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.

  Stephen Daldry

  Differences, People, Matter

  "Reading 'The Reader' with Stephen Daldry". Rotten Tomatoes Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. February 17, 2009.

• 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 then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

  Stephen Daldry

  Writing, Different, Three

  "RT Interview: Reading The Reader with Stephen Daldry". editorial.rottentomatoes.com. February 17, 2009.

• I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

  Stephen Daldry

  Ideas, Stories, Film

  "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

• 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 States, a question that kept coming up was this: how can you, as a man, talk about three women?

  Stephen Daldry

  Men, Three, Journalism

  "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

• 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 talking in middle-class accents.

  Stephen Daldry

  Running, Silly, Garden

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

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