Stephen Daldry
Stephen Daldry
Stephen David Daldry, CBE is an English director and producer of both film and theatre. He has won the Tony Award for his work on Broadway, and has directed several feature films that have been nominated for Best Director and/or Best Picture at the Academy Awards. These films are Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Readerand Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 May 1960
Stephen Daldry quotes about
reflection years knowing
Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.
defining productions has-beens
There has been one defining production for me in each decade.
scripts directors would-be
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.