Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYThe thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.
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I don’t quite understand what Tolstoy’s actual personal view of Anna is – whether he likes her or hates her, whether she’s the heroine or the antiheroine.
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I think everybody has the right to a private life.
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All through my life what I’ve loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.
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I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.
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At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I’m having a lovely time.
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I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods.
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Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else’s shoes and trying not to judge.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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I think women’s bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.
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A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
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It’s a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it’s never going to be enough.
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I’ve always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.
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You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me – which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn’t do it.
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If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
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It’s very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.
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