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"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."
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"Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word."
Love
"Lead the audience by the nose to the thought."
Thought
"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."
God
"When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part."
Character
"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book."
Actor
"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it."
Eye
"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself."
Work
"Have a very good reason for everything you do."
Reason
"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it."
Instinct
"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."
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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."
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"Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina."
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"It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not."
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"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."
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"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
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"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
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"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."
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"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."
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"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
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"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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