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What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they’re great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

Ben Whishaw

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
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Intention Slides Theatre
I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can’t say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
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Art Believe Wish
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I’m trying to do.
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Actors Character Trying
I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
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Film Love Music Stories
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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Lovely Something Stopped Streets
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they’re great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
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Bigs Ideas People
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
The thing about acting is that it’s fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what’s given to you.
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Acting Day End Past
I’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.
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Certainty Choices Life Next
Dustin Hoffman also never does the same thing twice which is totally stimulating because you’re always getting something new from him. You never really know what he’s going to do next, so you have to be on your toes.
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Always New Something Stimulate Twice
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.
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Overcoming People Trying

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