All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
BEN KINGSLEYFilming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn’t there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can’t.
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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There’s never been a trough of my assurance.
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In cinema, the leading player is the director.
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I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That’s how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
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One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
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I think I’m more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
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I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don’t understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
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Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don’t have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.
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My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
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The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It’s a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.
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The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.
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If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.
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I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
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I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.
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The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain.
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