Frears Stephen Quotes & Sayings

Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'. — Stephen Frears

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds. — Stephen King

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

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

I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior must be guided by a higher principle. Practicality has its place but only within a framework of values, which all men of good will share. — King Hussein I

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers. — Stephen Frears

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

Bound by a common identity grounded in language and history, the Arabs are all the more fascinating for their diversity. They are one people and many peoples at the same time. — Eugene Rogan

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

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become. — David Malouf

We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works. — Thomas R. Insel

I wouldn't want to be anyone to usurp the authority of the WWE. — Shawn Michaels

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

Open wide the mind's cage-door,
She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar. — John Keats

Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys. — Curtis Jackson

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

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts. — Stephen Frears

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally. — Stephen Frears

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing. — Stephen Frears

I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics. — Stephen Frears

I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself. — Stephen Frears

When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood. — Hedi Slimane

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right. — Stephen Frears

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

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct. — Peter Morgan

God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. — Seamus Heaney

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

I've always found poverty a source of strength. — Stephen Frears