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"Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller."
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"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."

"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."
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"I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on."
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"I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift."

"I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected."

"It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth."

"As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments."

"But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in."

"Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies."

"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."

"If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!"

"Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get."
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