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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

Stephen Fry

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
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I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you’re never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It’s in the spirit of it.
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If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you’ll find it.
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Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There’s very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I’m lucky enough that it’s reasonably mild in my case.
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
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You can’t reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
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There’s no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
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Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
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There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.
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I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.
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No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it’s always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It’s a wonderful journey to take.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
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But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
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