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Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

Ben Whishaw

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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Acting Character 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
We 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.
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People Reaction Simplicity
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
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Cat Good Life Pretty
I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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Painters Sculptors Stills
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.
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Intuition Stuff Thinking
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 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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Art Believe Wish
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like ‘Dr. No’ and ‘From Russia with Love.’
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Bind Country Fabvorite Rehersal
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.
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Character Different Looks
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

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