Stephen Frears Quotes

United Kingdom, Film Director
June 20, 1941

Stephen Arthur Frears is an English film and television director. Frears has directed numerous films since the 1980s including My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, The Queen, Philomena, and Florence Foster Jenkins. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director: for The Grifters and The Queen. In 2008 The Daily Telegraph named him among the 100 most influential people in British culture.

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

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- Actors
- Protect
- Directors
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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- Mind
- Film

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

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- Way
- Film
- Stamps
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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- Film
- Teach
- Testimony
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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- Important
- Film
- Risk
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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- Age
- Film
- Interest
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.

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- Spirit
- Voice
- Persons
To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

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- Successful
- Failing