Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears
Stephen Arthur Frearsis an English film director. Frears has directed British films since the 1980s including My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, The Queen and Philomena...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 June 1941
queens blue mind
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.
voice spirit abandon
There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.
way film stamps
The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.
film-directing teach testimony
I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.
hero risk judgement
Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.
book grew helped mgm
I grew up with those MGM musicals, so I have an idea what I like from a musical. It helped to read a book about making musicals, however.
I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.
I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.
jobs actors scripts
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.