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"I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck."
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"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
"When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries."
"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."
"Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda."
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"All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting."
"Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting."
"I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect."
"Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much."
"I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part."
"With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater."
"You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance."
"A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality."
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