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.
From Stephen Frears
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.
When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.
I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.
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.
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!
I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.
There's one thing now that I experience every day when I'm making a film. I get up and think to myself, 'Am I going to be able to do it today?' I figure as long as I have that fear, I'll be alright.
I never expected to become a director. It never occurred to me to come to America, to Hollywood. It's all been a wonderful accident. I'm still amazed every time I finish a film.
Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.
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