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" A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy. "
Other
Kind
Good
" As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age. "
Back
Thinking
Rights
" A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being. "
Minute
Come
Your
" Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every director will have a day, without exception, where they just can't do it anymore, they don't know what to say to their cameraman, their cast. It's the sign of real, physical exhaustion. "
Know
Day
Director
" I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now. "
Kids
Now
Right
" I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them. "
Will
Character
Try
" If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean. "
My Own
Writing
Past
" I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid. "
More
Now
World
" If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat. "
Character
You
See
" If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors. "
Believe
You
Acting
" I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying ourselves. We go places commercial cinema doesn't go, but sometimes it's to our own detriment. "
Sometimes
Art
Ideas
" I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932! "
Hate
Something
She
" I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.' "
Father
Football
Age
" I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.' "
End Of The Day
Job
You
" I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like. "
Bad
Know
Good
" I'm not a huge kind of visual director. For me, it's all about the acting. There's no greater buzz than working with actors and seeing what they can do and how much they can improve on what you'd written. That will always be on the top of my list. It's a real privilege to see it live before anyone else sees it. "
Live
Privilege
Seeing
" In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore. "
People
Oppression
Church
" In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like. "
Want
Look
Way
" In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of. "
I Can
Nest
Perfection
" In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know. "
You
Time
Long
" It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby. "
Done
Feel
Me
" It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea. "
End
Strong
Brain
" I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to. "
Values
Leader
Good
" I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars. "
Me
Win
You
" Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church. "
Connection
Leap
Church
" Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd. "
Much
Than
Nothing
" Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear. "
Know
Space
Reality
" No hard guy's not scared when another hard guy's knife is coming at you. You're scared, obviously, but you've to act less scared than he is. It's who is going to act less scared. "
Guy
Scared
Going
" Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain. "
Know
Achieve
World
" Part of the reason why so many actors lose the plot when they go over to America is that they become part of an industry, so that's why they don't want to play weak, bad or vulnerable guys - because that's not sellable; that diminishes their profit margin. "
Reason
America
Bad
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