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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can watch a film, even a film that I've been in, and think, 'I'm not sure, 100 percent, what I think about it.' I'm not sure what I think about what I've done in it.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read it, that it wasn't a seminal text. I think it deserves to be.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an evolving relationship with my father, and his memory, especially the older I get. I know that some of the things that interested him are things that interest me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that all the talented filmmakers sort of share, I think, a sense of allowing magic to happen; of creating a stable and secure environment for performers to feel they can push to the end of their ability.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a theater actor. When I was starting out, I didn't really plan on making films, actually.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020