Christopher Eccleston Quotes
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Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.
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My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!
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I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
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Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
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I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.
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What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.
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I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.
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I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.
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Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
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Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.
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I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.
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Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
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It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
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I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.
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I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.
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I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
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I had bags of energy as a kid.
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I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
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The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.
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The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.
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Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.
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I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
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I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.
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Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.