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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

Ben Whishaw

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
I’ve been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don’t understand what the hell is going on. I’ve no desire at all to go back there.
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Couple Desire Hell
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
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Be Good Fun Real
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
I always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished… it is not as if you can look back and think: ah… I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be.
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Dark Jobs Struggle
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 used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
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Knack Littles Wizard
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
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
I love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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 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
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

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

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