Quotes by Stephen Daldry

Stephen Daldry

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.

Knowing

Reflection

Years

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

Bored

Know How

Knows

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

School

Trying

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.

Garden

Running

Silly

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

Theatre

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

Bored

Needs

Three

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.

Morning

Telephones

Wake Up

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

Film

Ideas

Stories

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

Choices

Might

Return

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.

Bored

Hate

People

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Actors

Adults

Awards

Book

Bored

Boredom

Catholic

Choices

Class

Clay

Country

Couple

Criticism

Defining

Differences

Different

Directors

Drama

Earth

Eight

Emotional

Excess

Father

Feelings

Film

Fun

Garden

Gay

Germany

Gun

Hands

Hares

Has Beens

Hate

Hbo

Ideas

Important

Instinct

Issues

Jobs

Journalism

Joy

Kids

Know How

Knowing

Knows

Matter

Mean

Men

Might

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Quotes by Stephen Daldry

Stephen Daldry

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.

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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