"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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Source : "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

Stephen Daldry

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“As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.”
“Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in the world. They think that they will wear expensive clothes, makes loads of money, travel a lot and have a rock star for a boyfriend. This never interested me. I didn't want anyone to scream out my name. I wanted to make art, to create an image with a photographer. And yes, I wanted to get out of Clinton, Mississippi - a small town that was so closed-minded you can't even imagine.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.”
“Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?”
“I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.”
“[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots”
“When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.”
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”

Source : "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 1999.

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