I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
CILLIAN MURPHYYou 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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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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It’s obvious that if you’re going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they’re in and use as little or as much as necessary
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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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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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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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I think every director has a different methodology.
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I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.
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If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don’t, they won’t. There’s not much to write about me in the tabloids.
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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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I don’t care if people perceive me as always selling out because I’m doing a studio picture. For me, the whole thing is you should be diverse in your choices; that’s the beauty of being an actor, you should be able to do that.
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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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I think it’s necessary to keep moving forward. I’ve always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
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