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I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

Cillian Murphy

The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Media Method Story
I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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Children Cinema Myself Time
I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. ‘Disco Pigs’ was my first professional acting experience.
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Act Business Career Experience Family Law Play Professional Teaching
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
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Character Information Necessary Need Play Yourself
My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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Challenge Myself Repeat
I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn’t mean he can’t play different types of roles.
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Audience Different Himself Intelligence Thinking
It’s always nice to be challenged.
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Challenge Myself
I think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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Creative Death Forward Move Myself Necessary Nostalgia Thinking
I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Director Gift Myself Thinking True
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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Action Focus Fun Goodness Job Serious Yourself
I think you fall out of love with theater while you’re doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, “Please make this end.”
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Body End Fall Love Movie Play Thinking Yourself
I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Fall Love Myself Obsession
For me, drama is conflict.
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Conflict Drama Myself
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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Feeling Myself Start
If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don’t, they won’t. There’s not much to write about me in the tabloids.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Celebrity Myself People Treat Writing
For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Medium Myself Story

I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

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