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"As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away."
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"Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on."

"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that."

"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."
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"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."

"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed."

"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."

"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."

"I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face."

"There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer."

"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."
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