Words matter. These are the best Stephen Frears Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s Marvel movies that get the big audiences.
To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.
Oh, I live in London. So, whether I like it or not, I am a member of the metropolitan elite. If I were anywhere else in the country, I’d hate me.
I have to travel for my work, so the idea of getting on planes depresses me. They give me frequent-flyer points, and I think, ‘I don’t want them, because I’m sick of flying!’
I like making films about different cultures. I’m interested in things that I’ve never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience’s position.
There’s one thing now that I experience every day when I’m making a film. I get up and think to myself, ‘Am I going to be able to do it today?’ I figure as long as I have that fear, I’ll be alright.
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
I can’t write; I don’t think I’m even particularly good at telling a writer what’s good or what’s missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.
I’m from the Midlands. I lived in London for 50 years, but I’m not sure that I think of myself as a Londoner. I can see that we’re all metropolitan, whether we are Londoners or not.
I’m Jewish; I’m not religious at all, and I wouldn’t pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.
When I was young, my family used to go and stay in hotels on the south coast in places like Devon. I loved those holidays because they were with my brothers, who were away at school; I really looked forward to them.
Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film ‘This is a true story’.
I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.
I remember reading the script for ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ and thinking that I could quite happily spend the rest of my life watching this film; the story and the writing were so wonderful.
I had a somewhat charmed life. I was brought up at the BBC. I did meet so many people cleverer than myself in those years. Often, I was slapped down and made to feel not good enough.
Cyclists are insane. You’re going through the Alps, climbing up mountains. There’s this circus around them. They’re so tough. When they have a day off, they go out and cycle 100 miles.
I never expected to become a director. It never occurred to me to come to America, to Hollywood. It’s all been a wonderful accident. I’m still amazed every time I finish a film.
I wouldn’t want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.
Film schools didn’t exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.
I have people around me. I have a semi-permanent crew. If I make a film, they just turn up. They don’t even invite themselves. They don’t ask if they can come – they just turn up!