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I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person’s soul.

Ben Whishaw

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
The 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.
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Finding Looks People Yourself
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
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
I think that sometimes in theater, I don’t prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.
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Rehearsal Sometimes Thinking
The thing about acting is that it’s fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what’s given to you.
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Acting Day End Past
I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.
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Neurasthenic Not Really Torture
I don’t think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?
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States Thinking World
I’m really hopeless with technology – I don’t even have a computer.
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Computer Hopeless Technology
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
Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.
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Filmmaker Human Nature Stories
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
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’ve gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Gone Regimes Workout
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity.
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Anonymity Important Levels
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

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