Stephen Frears famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
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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.
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The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.
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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.
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As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
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To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.
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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.
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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.
-- Stephen Frears
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God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.
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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
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There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.
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Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.
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Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.
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It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
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