Frears Quotes

#1. You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.

Woody Harrelson

#2. 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

#3. I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

Stephen Frears

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

Stephen Frears

#5. We've all got our own people. Somewhere out there there's someone who is part of your tribe, who belongs to you, who should be with you. You have always been my people, Veronica. From the moment we first met till now, through all of those years where we were both lost and stolen.

Karina Halle

#6. After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. Carpet," said Mary Poppins, putting her key in the lock.

P.L. Travers

#8. Everyone thinks that. It's one of those little secrets we keep from each other. Show me a serious man and I'll show you a man who has never wept. Show me a madman and I'll show you a man who dried his tears a long time ago. Go ahead." "I

Ray Bradbury

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

Stephen Frears

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

Stephen Frears

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

Stephen Frears

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

Stephen Frears

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.

Stephen Frears

#23. You learn a lot when you know no one else is going to do things for you.

Megan Crewe

#24. I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

Stephen Frears

#25. I've always found poverty a source of strength.

Stephen Frears