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"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."
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"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."
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"The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits."
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"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
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"Doing cinema is not about watching yourself."
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"I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema."
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"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
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"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
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"I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way."
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"For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation."
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"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."
Family
"Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't."
Music
"Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work."
Work
"The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent."
Religion
"I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen."
Character
"But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible."
Love
"In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me."
England
"There's so much crap talked about acting."
Acting
"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."
Work
"I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate."
Gain
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