It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

- Stephen Frears

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

- Stephen Frears

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience an…

- Stephen Frears

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

- Stephen Frears

I basically just make films that interest me. And I don't want to make the same film twice, you know? But I've never found a franchise, so... I guess…

- Stephen Frears

To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.

- Stephen Frears

There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend …

- Stephen Frears

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

- Stephen Frears