When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way – they make you look at the world in a different way.
BEN WHISHAWI reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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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.
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.
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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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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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I’d like to have a go at directing.
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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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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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I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there’s pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
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