I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.
CILLIAN MURPHYTwo weeks ago we couldn’t pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we’re sending you all these scripts.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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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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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 always think it’s a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.
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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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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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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That’s what acting is about, Funny wigs and voices, that’s what we do.
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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 know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.
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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’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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I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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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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