Most theater methodology is ...

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.
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.
 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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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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It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.
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The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new writing, has seemed to have very little relevance to a much more fast-flowing, abstract, experimental drama that has been emerging in [the UK]. The porch play, not to mention that thing of, Oops, I wasn't loved enough by my father, somehow didn't have the relevance in this country.
 Stephen Daldry
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.
 Stephen Daldry