Stephen Frears (Stephen Arthur Frears) Quotes
The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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Men are visual creatures.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.
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I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.
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That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.
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We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.
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Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.
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The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.
