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.
KEIRA KNIGHTLEYI enjoy doing an action scene. I’m not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well.
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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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I’m doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.
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You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.
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I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the subject thinks too much about it.
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Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they’re constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
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The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.
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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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I wasn’t allowed to do commercials. I wasn’t allowed to do TV series. I wasn’t allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.
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I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them.
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I think fashion is like putting on armor. I like that aspect of it, but it’s not something I want to think about every day.
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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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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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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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It’s good to know that other people think differently, and that’s what makes the characters interesting.
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It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.
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