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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
- Drunk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate wasting people's time.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
- Certain Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
- Foolish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
- Picky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not picky, quite honestly.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
God knows, I haven't always been successful.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020