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- Close-Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began to direct, I discovered that I was much more comfortable than I was acting.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was extraordinary to experience 'Mamma Mia!' What an injection of good spirit and heart it was.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, the debate about Margaret Thatcher in Britain has just gotten fossilized in this notion that she is either this she-devil who wrecked the industrial base of the country and ruined the lives of millions, or she is the blessed Margaret who saved the nation and rescued us from our post-war decline.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was given a mask of myself by Frances Barber when we opened 'Julius Caesar.' I looked much younger and prettier. Wearing it was certainly cheaper than Botox.
- Actress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be an actress from about the age of five.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was hellbent on going to drama school, but my mother, rightly, panicked and persuaded me to go to university on the grounds that a degree would be 'something to fall back on.' Whilst at college, I realised I wasn't good enough or robust enough to be an actress.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are able to throw the behavior of the men into a particular relief and be playful within a slightly larger-than-life way with it.
- Felt
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was asked to read a screenplay about Margaret Thatcher, I think I felt immediate apprehension.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realised you could become fat and bald as a director and still remain employable.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked on live studio drama, which was one weird aberration in the 1980s. I worked on the 'Battle of Waterloo,' and my job was to reload the Brown Bess muskets - the only time the audience realised it was live was when somebody leant on a button and plunged the whole studio into blackout.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will be immovable on, and to shine a light on it.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
In management terms, directing opera certainly prepares you for a film set: the magnitude of it, the experts in other fields that you have to call on. Both are massive ensemble jobs in which there's incredible pressure to get things done on time and on budget - so much so that making the wrong decision may be better than making no decision at all.
- Obsessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opera is too obsessed with buildings.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be invited to the Park - the greatest free Shakespeare festival in the world - is a great honor, and I don't take it lightly.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a woman, I think Margaret Thatcher felt she had to be ten times more prepared than the men.
- Liberal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Margaret Thatcher was pro-choice. She voted to decriminalize homosexuality. Was not profoundly religious. She was very liberal on social issues.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
Margaret Thatcher always felt like an outsider in her party.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Directing is quite a nuts-and-bolts thing. It's a mixture of creating an atmosphere in which actors can feel safe enough to be dangerous.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You're at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, 'Am I going to make it?'
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movie-making is an extreme sport on many levels. It requires stamina such as I had never imagined.
- Theatre
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Europe, it is not so unusual for directors to move between opera, theatre, and film, and I have at least three girlfriends I can think of who have directed in all three genres.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the theatre in the U.K., women are at the very top of the tree as freelance directors.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the not-for-profit world, I never felt that being female was an impediment. I was, however, given my break into commercial theatre by a female producer, Judy Craymer, and women - in particular, Donna Langley, president of production at Universal - were crucial in giving 'Mamma Mia' a home in Hollywood.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really realize I was a woman director until I walked onto the set at Pinewood Studios when I did 'Mamma Mia!' and everybody was calling each other 'Governor' and 'Sir'... and then, looking at me, 'Well... good morning!'
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Handmaid's Tale' is a horrifying and horrifyingly possible vision of the future.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that I didn't think I could stand the psychological battering that actors have to withstand. I just felt I wasn't cut out for that kind of self-promotion.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have bad hair and you bite your nails, nobody expects that you can't direct plays.
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