Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
BEN WHISHAWFilmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
BEN WHISHAWI am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
BEN WHISHAWI would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
BEN WHISHAWI don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
BEN WHISHAWMy favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
BEN WHISHAWThe criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
BEN WHISHAWWhat 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 WHISHAWFor me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
BEN WHISHAWI reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
BEN WHISHAWIt’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
BEN WHISHAWI was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
BEN WHISHAWWe 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.
BEN WHISHAWI’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
BEN WHISHAWEven 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.
BEN WHISHAWThe most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It’s amazing what people do, isn’t it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
BEN WHISHAWI 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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