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There’s a lot of comedy in Intermission but it’s got this depth. It’s not comedy for comedy’s sake – it’s informed by something else. I like stuff like that

Cillian Murphy

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Challenge Myself Repeat
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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Drive Goodness Main Quick Realization Writing Yourself
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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Creative Death Forward Move Myself Necessary Nostalgia Thinking
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Age Ambition Music Professional Serious Young Yourself
For me, drama is conflict.
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Conflict Drama Myself
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
It’s always nice to be challenged.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Challenge Myself
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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Action Focus Fun Goodness Job Serious Yourself
The medium is secondary to the stories.
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Media Method Story
I personally think if something’s not a challenge there’s no point doing it because you’re not gonna learn much.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Challenge Learning Personal Point Thinking Yourself
I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids’ films.
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Children Cinema Myself Time
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.”
CILLIAN MURPHY

Body End Fall Love Movie Play Thinking Yourself
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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Break Fall In Love Myself Need Thinking
Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we’d have to learn it in school, we’d to learn the catechism by rote.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Generation Learning Myself School
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.
CILLIAN MURPHY

Action Cleaning Experience Open Slate Yourself
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
CILLIAN MURPHY

Character Information Necessary Need Play Yourself

There’s a lot of comedy in Intermission but it’s got this depth. It’s not comedy for comedy’s sake – it’s informed by something else. I like stuff like that

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