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"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."

"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."

"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."

"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."

"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."
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"If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance."

"When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting."

"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child."

"Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder."

"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."

"I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language."

"As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving."

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
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