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" Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely. "

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" I find it easier to approach things from a critical angle that otherwise may seem daunting because I'm used to being scared. "

" It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies. "

" I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly. "

" The more I'm committed to finding a way to genuinely be immersed in someone else's life, the more enjoyment there is in it. I've never been interested in smoke and mirrors and cutting corners. I'd rather just do it for real. "

" My grandfather, who is English, was a member of a gentleman's club called the Caledonian, which you can only be a member of if you have Scottish lineage. "

" I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind. "

" I don't do glamorous things. "

" It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this world which will still be here. "

" What theatre people love about theatre - and I totally understand it, I just don't share it - is that they feel they mint something afresh every night. Because I would rather do something until I've done it and then know it's done. New day, next thing! "

" I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The album is called 'Everything We Hold,' and you can hear my lyrics. "

" The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still. "

" Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed. "

" I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that. "

" You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees. "

" I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row. "

" I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art. "

" I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than anything else. We never put on plays. "

" This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different. "

" I really enjoy the fact that the very boring, normal person that I am isn't kind of interesting to anyone. It's fine by me. "

" I've been a big blagger all my life. "

" Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you. "

" I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving. "

" I'm a bit of a technophobe. "

" I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore. "

" There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy. "

" I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday. "

" If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. "

" I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing. "

" My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs. "

" It might look like some incredibly complicated map to get from English period films to American action anti-heroes, but it really is just about not having a plan. "