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"You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut."
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"Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger."
Actor
"You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut."
Film
"I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work."
Work
"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."
Ireland
"I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time."
Money
"I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you."
Feelings
"On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it."
Trust
"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
Trust
"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
Work
"Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat."
Actor
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
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Personal Development
"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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"I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked."
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