I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
CILLIAN MURPHY
It’s obvious that if you’re going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they’re in and use as little or as much as necessary
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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Two weeks ago we couldn’t pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we’re sending you all these scripts.
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You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that’s where your focus should be. And then there’s a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.
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There’s a lot of comedy in Intermission but it’s got this depth. It’s not comedy for comedy’s sake – it’s informed by something else. I like stuff like that
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I’m interested in pressure, I’m interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.
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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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I personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
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At the moment I’m doing this space movie, so I’m obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it’s gone. Then I’ll be able to superficially say stuff about space.
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I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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