Stephen Daldry Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Stephen Daldry

  Morning, Wake Up, Telephones

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• 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 a series, honestly.

  Stephen Daldry

  Hbo, Eight, Clay

  "Stephen Daldry Wants to Adapt Michael Chabon’s THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY as 8-Part HBO Miniseries" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. December 11, 2011.

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• Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.

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  Kids, Parent, Rings

  "Stephen Daldry Discusses New Movie". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 20, 2011.

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• There has been one defining production for me in each decade.

  Stephen Daldry

  Defining, Productions, Has Beens

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• 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.

  Stephen Daldry

  Opportunity, Awards, Boredom

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• When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?

  Stephen Daldry

  Mother, Gay, Earth

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

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• 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 can do.

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  Theatre, Excess, Youth

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

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• 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 last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.

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  Reflection, Years, Knowing

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• 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 be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

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  School, Trying, Adults

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• 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.

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  Morning, Catholic, Directors

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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, has seemed to have very little relevance to a much more fast-flowing, abstract, experimental drama that has been emerging in [the UK]. The porch play, not to mention that thing of, Oops, I wasn't loved enough by my father, somehow didn't have the relevance in this country.

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  Country, Father, Drama

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

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  Ideas, Stories, Film

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

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• You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.

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  Book, Responsibility, Emotional

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