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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

Ben Kingsley

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it’s such an extraordinary part of our lives.
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Children Thinking Trying
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
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Film Running Wonderful
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
BEN KINGSLEY

Cinema Silence Thinking
Well, it’s wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
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Identified Wells Wonderful Work
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.
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Ease Flesh Longing
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It’s a good exercise to do.
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Accurate Exercise Voice
There’s so much crap talked about acting.
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Acting Crap Talk
I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can’t because they can’t face it.
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Believe Female Men Writers
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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May Pregnancy Together
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.
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Choices Firsts Script
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it’s a science. It’s neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
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Art Fun Thinking
When I choose a role it’s either because I recognise the man, or that I’m very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don’t play him.
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Men Play Roles
There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you’re auditioning for them, every day, and that’s a terrible feeling on the set.
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Director Feelings Skills
You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right note. But not alter the score of the music, just emphasize the note correctly.
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Musical Term Trying
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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Astonishing Hamlet Intelligence
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots

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