STEPHEN DALDRY

'Stephen David Daldry', CBE (born May 2 1961 in Dorset) is an English movie director and producer. He trained at East 15 Acting School, London.
He was educated at the University of Sheffield before taking an apprenticeship at the city's Crucible Theatre from 1985-1988.
In November 2004, Daldry announced that he was planning to direct a film adaptation of Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'' in 2005.^[1] In the ensuing three years, the project was cancelled and reinitiated several times, and in late 2006 was partially cast with Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire.Hodler, Timothy. Michael Chabon Q & A, Details Magazine. 2007. Retrieved on 2007-08-15. According to Chabon, production then stalled due to "studio-politics kinds of reasons that I'm not privy to," and as of April 2007 remains inactive.

Contents

Selected works

Director

Producer

Personal life

Quotes

References

External links

Selected works

Director

★ ''An Inspector Calls'' (1992) (stage)

★ ''Eight'' (1998)

★ ''Billy Elliot'' (2000)

★ ''The Hours'' (2002)

★ ''Cinema16'' (2003)

★ ''Billy Elliot the Musical'' (2005) (stage)

Producer

★ ''The 'Billy Elliot' Boy'' (2001) (co-producer)

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★ a.k.a. "Omnibus: The Billy Elliot Boy" (2001) (UK: series title)

Personal life

Daldry is gay and once dated set director Ian MacNeil.^[2] He married performance artist Lucy Sexton who gave birth to their first child in 2003.^[3] Despite being married to a woman, Daldry still considers himself to be gay.²

Quotes

"One of the great things about directors is how collegial we feel with each other. We share huge amounts - I get other directors in to see my work all the time and they do the same with me. It's a very warm and generous group of people."
"When I made Billy Elliot, people asked me, 'Oh, did you want to be a dancer when you were young, then?' I didn't even like dance before I made the film. 'Do you come from the north-east?' No, Somerset. 'Is it based on someone?' No. We made it up. We just made it up. The act of making something up seems to be very difficult these days."
"I get frustrated about it because they say, 'How can a man talk about women?' I say, 'Steven Spielberg didn't need to be an alien to talk about E.T. You don't need to be a dog to direct Lassie.' It seems to be a denial of the process of imagination, which is a posh word for 'guesswork.'" (on ''The Hours'')
"They never met. We shot Meryl first, then Julianne, then Nicole. The first time they got together was on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'' and talked about cornflakes." (on ''The Hours'')

References

1. Scott Rudin's Three Ring Holiday Circus
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3. Stephen Daldry

External links

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