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" Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that. "

" Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over? "

" For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here. "

" I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you. "

" I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises. "

" I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air. "

" I'm not a fan of Twitter. "

" I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American. "

" I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. "

" I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure. "

" I think you can be as big as you like as long as you mean it. I really do. "

" It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another. "

" It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they? "

" It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves. "

" I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it. "

" Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura. "

" Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film. "

" Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte. "

" Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained. "

" So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive. "

" There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming. "

" The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers. "

" When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly. "

" When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different. "

" With 'Urban Secrets,' I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people. "

" You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep. "

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