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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.

Cillian Murphy

All I’ve tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That’s been my main drive. It’s not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Drive Goodness Main Quick Realization Writing Yourself
I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. ‘Disco Pigs’ was my first professional acting experience.
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Act Business Career Experience Family Law Play Professional Teaching
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
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
I don’t know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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Myself Plane
It’s always nice to be challenged.
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Challenge Myself
I’ve always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I’ve talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I’ll have more butterflies.
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Kind Myself Nervous Performance Protection Safety
I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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Love Movie Myself Thinking
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
I think every director has a different methodology.
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Different Director Method
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’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
I think if you play characters, it’s very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.
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Character Myself Normal Play Thinking
And once you’re unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you’re unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary.
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Afraid Capacity Dangerous Death Violence Yourself
I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours – that will always remain and never be eroded by television.
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Darkness Love Movie Myself Romance Story Stranger Watch
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

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