Film Quotes
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I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.
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Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.
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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
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I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.
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There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
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I've always wanted to keep my foot in film as well as theatre and be working in both worlds.
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I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.
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To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.
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Would I do it again? Film another movie? Oh yeah.
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All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.
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I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it comes to TV and film. I'm still learning. It's exciting.
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Film for me became how I related to everything else.
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Being on a weekly series, you see these people so much, and you have these genuine interactions with them where if you're away doing a film, it's a little different because there's - these definite end dates to everything.
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I want to do more films.
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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.
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You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!
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You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.
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Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.
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I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.
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I do only one film at a time.
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I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.
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That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
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I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.
