My parents have raised me with a sense of what’s really important and have given me decent values, and I’m comfortable, but I haven’t lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I’ve kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.
ADRIEN BRODYI think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it’s pretty short-lived.
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I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that’s kept me in line. Really in line.
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I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it’s pretty short-lived.
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What guides me is to do work that’s more avant-garde – things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.
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I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.
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War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography,
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It would be terribly boring to be earnest.
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Doing interviews is very different from working as an actor.
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And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.
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Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change.
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It’s not like I crave attention all the time.
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I always had an actor within me.
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If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it’s permanently there as a negative reminder.
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My dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.
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Like, fear and the way fear controls us.
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I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.
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