Stephen Frears Quotes

I've been lucky to be educated by watching the old and the great movies, working with good filmmakers, and being educated on sets.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.

My education as a filmmaker has been entirely practical. I started working professionally in the film business in 1970, and I've been at it steadily since, and I pay a lot of attention.

I got to learn what does and doesn't work on screen. Because the turnaround is so fast, there's no messing around. You have to be on the ball.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

Directing is more what I would like to get into eventually. Frankly, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn't because I've spent so much time on film sets, and I know how they work, and I love them, and I love leading them. I would like to do that as a director definitely.

I'm a believer in film school.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

I have a lot of things I want to do. I have a lot of fire. I want to do film. I want to do action movies. I want to do period pieces.

Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.

You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.

Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what's good and what's not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing.