Stephen Daldry Quotes

The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work.

I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.

I'm an example of someone who got a bit more focused as I got older.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

Starting clean is a theme for me - starting fresh and understanding what's important about life.

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten simpler - my level of aspiration has actually gone down and down. But my level of impact has gone up and up.

In the year and a half that I've been sober, in the comfort of married life, Vogue and I have welcomed our first son and become a family of our own. We are busy, happy, and doing well. My finger is on the pulse and things I never bothered to try to understand make sense to me now.

I consider myself to be a man with my priorities in order.

With each year I experience, I become more relaxed. I know now what is important to listen to and what to ignore. You only get that with age.

I do better in life when my world seems a little smaller.

As I get older and more mature, my artwork changes accordingly.

Over the years with me maturing as an artist and as a person, I really learned to keep things in perspective.

The more mature you get and the more you understand about life, your picture gets clearer, the focus gets clear.

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.

When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.