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There has been one defining production for me in each decade.
Stephen Daldry / Director
Defining
Has Beens
Productions
Decade
Production
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As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.
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Bored
Know How
Knows
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Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.
Stephen Daldry / Director
Kids
Parent
Rings
Ring
Love Parents Your
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I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.
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Bored
Needs
Three
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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?
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Earth
Gay
Mother
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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?'
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Surprised
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One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
Stephen Daldry / Director
Jobs
Different
Investigating
Joy
Different Areas
Huge Amount
Joys
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I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.
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Choices
Might
Motivated
Return
Life Money My Life
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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.
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Morning
Telephones
Wake Up
Booth
Costume
In Fact
Telephone
Wake
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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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Film
Ideas
Stories
Life Your Own
Autobiographical
Categorically
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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.
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Clay
Eight
Hbo
Honestly
Wanna
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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.
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Opportunity
Awards
Boredom
Smoking
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Nearest
The Most Important
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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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Excess
Refinement
Theatre
Youth
Rid
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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 other is David Hare.
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Hares
Mean
David
Churchill
Hare
They Say
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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 potters off and does a couple of movies.
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Couple
Theatre
Who I Am
Movies World I Am
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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.
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Running
Accents
England
Garden
Load
Made
Silly
Surprising
Talking
Around
Films
Gardens
Strictly
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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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Adults
School
Trying
Adult
Life Me Rest
Adult Life
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You have to trust your own instincts about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate and trust your own feelings about what you can and can't show for yourself, and it'll be different for everybody.
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Different
Feelings
Instinct
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I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.
Stephen Daldry / Director
Bored
Hate
People
Love Work Relationship
Box
Context
Freaks
Reinvent
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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, literally, for a German soldier to take up arms.
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Afghanistan
Arms
Berlin
Fascinating
Parliament
Roles
Soldier
Thinking
Actively
German
Discuss
Literally
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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.
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Actors
Eight
Ideas
Methodology
Actions
Repeat
Repeated
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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 talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.
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Fun
No Idea
Play
Talking
Genuinely
Great Fun
Plays
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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 so much better than me.' I usually say, 'I know who would be good for this. It's not me.
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Directors
Scripts
Would Be
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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 so much better than me.' I usually say, 'I know who would be good for this. It's not me.'
Stephen Daldry / Director
Scripts
Good Great Me
Great Script
Hire
Paul
Script
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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?
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Men
Journalism
Three
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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?'
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Journalism
Women Man Always
General Rule
Resist
Statement
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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 there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.
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Awards
Hands
Los Angeles
Silly
Angeles
Count
Los
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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.
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Different
Shooting
Three
Writing
Edit
Shoot
Processes
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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 and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.
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Appropriate
Country
Engaged
Forgotten
Gun
Past
German
Conversations
Deeply
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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 in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.
Stephen Daldry / Director
War
Country
Germany
Little Time
Post War
German
Work Time History
Schoolboy
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Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.
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Directors
Important
Now And Then
Theatre
Buys
Directing
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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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.
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Differences
Imperfect
Matter
People
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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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Knowing
Reflection
Scary
Years
Ahead
Cycle
To Be Honest
Years And Years
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I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.
Stephen Daldry / Director
Directors
Preview
Responding
Theatre
Thinking
Love Feel Know
Incredibly
Test
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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
Contemporary
Directors
Film Directors
Perceive
Wake Up
Tastes
Ooh
Wake
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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
Emotional
Responsibility
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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 make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?
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Choices
Different
Want
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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 make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'
Stephen Daldry / Director
Choices
Work Money Movies
Financially
Offered
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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 / Director
Class
England
Film Industry
People
Successful
Variety
Wake Up
Working Class
Life Work Movies
Writers
Slow
Reasons
Shocks
Telling
Tends
Wake
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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 / Director
Criticism
Pieces
Way
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In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.
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War
Issues
Years
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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.
Stephen Daldry / Director
Country
Drama
Father
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