Quotes by Stephen Frears - Page 1

It's Marvel movies that get the big audiences.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Marvel
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I've always found poverty a source of strength.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Poverty
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I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Bored
Time Film Make
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I only watch films in the cinema. I'm old fashioned. I'm a lost cause.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Cinema
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To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Failing
Needs
Successful
Fail
Occasionally
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As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Jobs
Actors
Directors
Scripts
Designers
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I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Not Interested
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I'm a Republican, but I like the Queen. Like everyone else, I'm sentimental about the Queen.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Sentimental
Everyone Else
Queen
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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 / Film Director
Film
Stamps
Way
Stamp
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When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Receptive
Me Way More
Opens
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I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.
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Catholic
Jewish
Pretend
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Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
True Story
Endlessly
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I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Developing
Scripts
Bbc
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I have never been to Australia, because the flight terrifies me, but I think I would like to go there one day.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Australia
Flight
One Day
Me Day Never
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There isn't a route to success. Make a film. If people like it, you'll be okay. There is no route that I know of.
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Okay
Route
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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 / Film Director
Queens
Blue
Film
Mind
Muhammad
Ali
Crossed
Queen
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Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Clever
Clever People
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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 / Film Director
Hero
Judgement
Risk
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Audiences aren't fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Investors
Judgement
Fools
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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.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Metropolitan
Hate I Am Me
Anywhere Else
Hate Me I Am
Elite
Member
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This black hole that people talk about in my career in the '70s, when I didn't make any films - in retrospect, what I was doing was learning my job.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Black Hole
Retrospect
Hole
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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.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Different Cultures
Myself Never Try
Cultures
Encountered
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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.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Missing
Good Someone Who
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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 Director
Film Directing
Teach
Testimony
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I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. It's 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 Director
Testimony
Directing
Inasmuch
Suppose
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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.
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Abandon
Spirit
Voice
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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!'
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Flying
Give Me
Planes
Sick
Work Travel Me
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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.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Amazed
Time Me Never
Time Me America
Accident
Finish
Occurred
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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!
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Crew
Invite
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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.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Metropolitan
Myself See I Can
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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.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Charmed
Not Good Enough
Life Good Myself
Bbc
Somewhat
Slapped
So Many People
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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.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Circus
Climbing
Cyclists
Insane
Miles
Mountains
Cycle
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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.
Stephen Frears / Film Director
Life Thinking Remember
Happily
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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.
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Alright
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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.
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Devon
Holidays
Hotels
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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 / Film Director
Age
Film
Want
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