Stephen Frears (Stephen Arthur Frears) Quotes
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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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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There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.
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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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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
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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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I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
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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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I’ve stopped war reporting. I realized that I’d answered all of my questions about war and about myself.
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I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever.
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Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
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As a director you already have a script, you have actors... you have collaborators when you're a director. When you're writing there's no one to collaborate with, there's no material to look at. I haven't adapted something yet, so, I'm sure that would be helpful. When you're writing an original piece you have nothing.
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You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.
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As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
