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

Ben Whishaw

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’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
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 love the characters I’ve had the opportunity to play.
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Character Opportunity Play
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
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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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Country People Today
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I’m trying to do.
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Actors Character Trying
In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there’s so much that’s against you on a film set.
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Preparation Rehearsal Shooting
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
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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
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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Always New Something Stimulate Twice
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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 don’t think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.
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People Talking Thinking

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