"At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve."
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"I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!"
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"Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect."
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"If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it."
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"As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'"
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"When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself."
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"I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk."
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"Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing"
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"Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!"
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"Actors should never give interviews."
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"My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one."
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"I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious."
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"There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment."
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"Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful."
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"How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie."
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"I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already."
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"I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing."
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"How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?"
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"Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing."
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"I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work."
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