In one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it’s not just an attempt at naturalism. It’s stylised and it’s heightened, to great effect. It’s elegant and it’s funny and that’s the way to my heart, frankly.
BILL NIGHYEmma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It’s fabulous.
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So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines – technical things which are important, but I don’t think they change the way I feel in a scene.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
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When you have a family, or even when you’re just seeing a girl, it’s difficult to be skint.
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They’re at their most enchanting ’cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, “Please don’t let this end.”
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I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain.
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I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
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One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘
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Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.
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I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, “Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true.” I like those kinds of backgrounds.
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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
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I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
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I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said ‘What play was that?’ and he said ‘It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.’
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I have nothing against romanticism. I’m all for it. I’m helpless in the face of romance.
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