Stephen Frears (Stephen Arthur Frears) Quotes
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
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Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.
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But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.
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Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.
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I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.
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The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.
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The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
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And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.
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Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.
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I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.
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The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
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As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.