English - Director | May 2, 1960 -
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.
Stephen Daldry
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I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.
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Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.
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I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this so much better than me.' I usually say, 'I know who would be good for this. It's not me.'
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They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.
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I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.
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There has been one defining production for me in each decade.
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If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'
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I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.
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