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"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
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"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
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"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done."
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"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about."
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"There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance."
Work
"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."
Actor
"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
"When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him."
Man
"I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies."
Sense
"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
Writer
"Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic."
Acting
"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!"
Acting
"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
"John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London."
London
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