For me it’s always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
CILLIAN MURPHYIt 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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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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It’s always nice to be challenged.
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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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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 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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For me, drama is conflict.
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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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I think every director has a different methodology.
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I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
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I’ve never done a film for the money.
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From 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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The medium is secondary to the stories.
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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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You’re an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn’t be limited by your extraction.
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I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.
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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 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’m pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.
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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 like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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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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You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.
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I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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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