I never want to make a film. I dont wake up in the morning going, Ooh, Id really love to be on set making a film today. Im aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes. – Stephen Daldry
I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work. – Stephen Daldry
I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or Ill get bored. – Stephen Daldry
I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and its a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. Ive always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another. – Stephen Daldry