Stephen Daldry Quotes

I've always been a huge John Guare fan. But Edward Albee - he just can't be beat.

I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

I am an internationally produced playwright.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

David Cromer, from Chicago, I think is the most gifted young director in America.

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

There will never be any really great women writers in the theatre, because women do not know as much as men.

Theatre has been a part of my education as much as anything else.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

Plays are just all sort of playful asides, and there's a great deal of reference here to Greek mythology, plays, and dramas. The idea of the chorus is really important in Greek drama and I loved the idea of including that.

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.

Good drama must be drastic.

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.

You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you truly don't believe what you're spittin' then you need to really seriously be an actor then.