English - Director | June 17, 1957 -
Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'
Phyllida Lloyd
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The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.
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It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will be immovable on, and to shine a light on it.
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I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.
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I realised you could become fat and bald as a director and still remain employable.
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I worked on live studio drama, which was one weird aberration in the 1980s. I worked on the 'Battle of Waterloo,' and my job was to reload the Brown Bess muskets - the only time the audience realised it was live was when somebody leant on a button and plunged the whole studio into blackout.
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Movie-making is an extreme sport on many levels. It requires stamina such as I had never imagined.
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Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.
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When I began to direct, I discovered that I was much more comfortable than I was acting.
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It was extraordinary to experience 'Mamma Mia!' What an injection of good spirit and heart it was.
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You can't wait for someone to discover you; you have to just get on and do it. Have confidence that directing is a very suitable job for a woman - with our gift for collaboration, listening, and reading the nuance of things.
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In a way, 'Mamma Mia!' was such a left-field thing for me.
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