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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man: who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
- Bracket
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very, very, very rarely lose my temper. I do get cross sometimes when encountering something that I feel is improper, that I feel is lacking in justice and equity, and this all sounds very pompous and over the top - but these are the things that really upset me: intolerance, prejudice etc. I suppose in more mundane matters, I'm impatient.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.
- Idol
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 4 ft. 2 in. and not exactly a matinee idol.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020