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Simon Callow

"When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it."

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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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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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"Looper is another great film."

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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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"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."

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"I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film."

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"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself."

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"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"

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"I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary."

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"A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now."

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Simon Callow
"When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it."

Film

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Simon Callow
"He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really."

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Simon Callow
"He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer."

Life

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Simon Callow
"Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it."

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Simon Callow
"I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books."

Life

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