We put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
ROWAN ATKINSONMarketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something – this side of it, if you like, doing interviews – is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
More Rowan Atkinson Quotes
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I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the ’50s and ’60s.
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?
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I don’t think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don’t play.
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I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I’m in the company of good friends, but I’m not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
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I’m more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
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I have always worried about things more than I should.
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Don’t get too much emotionally attached to anyone.
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My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
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Nope, I don’t enjoy work generally. Not because I’m lazy; it’s just all so stressful and worrying.
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The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd!
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I would never be a television presenter. It’s not something I could ever do.
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I think in many ways Johnny English is a more believable character.
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