For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHYI don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
More Cillian Murphy Quotes
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I think you fall out of love with theater while you’re doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, “Please make this end.”
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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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I think every director has a different methodology.
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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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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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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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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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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 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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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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For me, drama is conflict.
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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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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.
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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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