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As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

~Stephen Daldry

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When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?'

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Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.

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England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: May 2nd, 1960

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