For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHYFrom 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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I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.
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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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I think every director has a different methodology.
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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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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 don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker
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I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
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I’m terrible. I’m the wrong person to talk to, I really don’t know a thing.
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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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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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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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I always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
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I’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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