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

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  As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

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• Stephen Frears:

  Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true sto

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  I've always found poverty a source of strength.

• Stephen Frears:

  I remember reading the script for 'Dangerous Liaisons' and thinking that I could quite happily spen

• Stephen Frears:

  I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. It's not really possible to teach film direction, but

• Stephen Frears:

  When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptiv

• Stephen Frears:

  I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you sc