Top Stephen Daldry Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Stephen Daldry Biography

Stephen David Daldry, CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won two Olivier Awards for his work in the West End and two Tony Awards for his work on Broadway. He has directed several feature films that have been nominated for Best Director and/or Best Picture at the Academy Awards. These films are Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002), The Reader (2008) and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011). In 2016, he produced and directed Netflix television series The Crown, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series. Daldry joined an elite group of directors by receiving nominations for direction in theatre, television and film.

Read about Stephen Daldry in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Stephen Daldry Quotes

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.

Awards, Boredom, Nearest, Opportunity

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.

Different, Feelings, Instinct, Show, Trust

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.

Adults, Decided, School, Sense, Trying

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.

Class, Industry, People, Successful, Work, Writers

I always say, 'I really need to take a break. ' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

Bored, Days, Needs, Pretty, Three

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.

Awards, Count, Hands, Silly, Working

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.

Differences, Imperfect, Matter, People, Time

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

Earth, Gay, Mother, Said

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.

2013, Honest, Knowing, Reflection, Time, Years

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

Autobiographical, Categorically, Film, Ideas, Stories, Supposed

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.

Change, Costume, Morning, Telephone, Telephones, Wake Up

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.

Fun, Happen, Play, Start, Talking

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

Choices, Life, Make, Might, Money, Return

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.

Clay, Eight, Hbo, Honestly, Kavalier

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

Kids, Parent, Ring, Rings, Tell

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

Decade, Decades, Defining, Has Beens, Production

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.

Directors, Important, Make, Theatre, Thing

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?

Journalism, Men, Question, Three

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.

Actions, Actors, Eight, Ideas, Methodology, Theater

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.

Arms, Berlin, Roles, Soldier, Take, Thinking

1