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I think every director has a different methodology.

Cillian Murphy

I try not to think retrospectively. It’s important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you’re going, “Yeah, yeah, I can do that,” then that’s kind of a red flag.
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Artist Flag Important Kind Pieces Thinking Try
You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that’s where your focus should be. And then there’s a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.
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Action Focus Fun Goodness Job Serious Yourself
I personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
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Challenge Learning Personal Point Thinking Yourself
At the moment I’m doing this space movie, so I’m obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it’s gone. Then I’ll be able to superficially say stuff about space.
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Moments Movie Myself Space
I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn’t mean he can’t play different types of roles.
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Audience Different Himself Intelligence Thinking
That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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Act Myself Voice
For me, drama is conflict.
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Conflict Drama Myself
I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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Director Gift Myself Thinking True
I’ve had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe and learn and take something from it and try and become better yourself.
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Better Greatness Happiness Luck Observation Work Yourself
I’m interested in pressure, I’m interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.
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Element Greatness Interest Literature Opinion
From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That’s what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.
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Age Ambition Music Professional Serious Young Yourself
For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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Medium Myself Story
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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Herself Live Personal Wife
I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.
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Break Fall In Love Myself Need Thinking
I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
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Live Myself Passion
I think any actor that says ‘I never watch my films’ is a liar because you have to watch it at least once and also you’re going to watch it when you’re doing your ADR.
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Lying Thinking Yourself

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