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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 Whishaw

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
I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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Sides Two Typical
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
I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.
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Degrees Insecurity Thinking
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
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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Criminals Flaws Justice
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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Art Soul Thinking
I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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Background Children Shy
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
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 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’d like to have a go at directing.
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Action Directing Go
One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition – that something can slide away from your original intentions.
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Intention Slides Theatre

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