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"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."
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"Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country."
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"Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed."
Feelings
"I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me."
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"It's nice to be asked to do good projects."
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"You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas."
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"You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry."
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"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."
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"In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve."
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"Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you."
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"People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch."
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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
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"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."
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"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
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"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
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"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
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