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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

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
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’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
I’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
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 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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.
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People Reaction Simplicity
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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.
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Acting Character Stories
I don’t think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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People Talking Thinking
I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I’ve been cast.
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Cast Lot Thin Thinking

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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