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.
BEN WHISHAWI don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.
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I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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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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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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I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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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 would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I’m still fascinated by those things.
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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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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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I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
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When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I’d be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn’t. I didn’t get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I’d better train and then the parts would come.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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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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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
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I don’t have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It’s not about that for me.
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