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The Empire Inspiration Award

Stephen Frears On Stage
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Stephen Frears

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Empire Inspiration Award
Stephen Frears
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You're all so funny. And these films are wonderful. There was actually one of my clips I didn't actually recognise. Well I've been very lucky. I've been inspired myself by a lot of things. I started a lnog time ago at the Roayl Court with Carol Rice and Lindsay Anderson. Then when I started directing I was at the BBC and working with people like Alan Bennett, I was working with Chris Manges. In the 80s I was working with Hanief Kureishei and Christopher Hampton, producers like Tim (Bevan) and Norma Heyman. Actors like Dan Day-Lewis, and I started working with people like Penny Aisles, Jenny Shirkle, Mick Audsley. I thought the film about Guantanamo last week was extraordinary. I spent the weekend working with a camera operator who was fantastic, and I've come here tonight with a young producer, and a young editor who inspire me, so thank you, but thank them for having faith in me. Thank you.

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