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Albert Finney

"I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis."

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"I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis."

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"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."

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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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"Looper is another great film."

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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."

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"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."

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"I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film."

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"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself."

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"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"

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"I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary."

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"A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now."

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Albert Finney
"It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'"

Life

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Albert Finney
"I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun."

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Albert Finney
"I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time."

Time

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Albert Finney
"They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'"

Kids

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Albert Finney
"To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life."

Life

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Albert Finney
"No, she is right up there with the best I've worked with. I was very impressed with her, I really was."

Right

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Albert Finney
"We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech."

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Albert Finney
"I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me."

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Albert Finney
"My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama."

Girlfriend

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Albert Finney
"You come on as a guest. You don't get the girl anymore. But that is our lives. You start off as the boyfriend, then you are the lover, then you are the husband, then you are the father, and then you are the grandfather."

Father

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