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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
- Film Directors
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
- People
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Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.
- Big Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a fan of Twitter.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.
- Dench
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
- Missing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
- Exploded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting.
- Grounding
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
- Ambition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020