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" I have worked with three female first assistant directors - on 'Hostiles,' 'Gone Girl,' and a short film, 'The Human Voice,' and they have all been exceptional. "

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" It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great. "

Rosamund Pike

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" I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine. "

" When I was about 21, everyone thought I was about 30. "

" There are lots and lots of good actors out there, and often it's just luck if what you bring to the table syncs with the director's vision. "

" Especially in Britain, people want to limit you. "

" You just never know who's going to have chemistry. You can put two of the sexiest people in the world together, and they could be completely flat. "

" You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as human beings is through art, and the way we process emotions - I know I do - is through recognizing experiences on screen or in novels or in paintings. "

" I can read significance into tiny, tiny things. If I'd met someone 10 years ago and not seen them again, and then I suddenly bumped into them, I'd feel that that was 'meant,' or there's a fate, you know? "

" I just hope and pray that I never get threatened by younger actresses coming up behind me. I hope I won't, but you never know what's going to hit you. "

" I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh. "

" There was a time during 'Gone Girl' that I'd come home, and I'd say, 'I get to be every part of being a woman in this role.' For me, I feel it much more as a springboard for the work I'm going to take on thereafter. "

" It's not easy casting the men. You have to go gingerly, but you have to approach the right man at the right time because men don't want to play second fiddle to a woman. That's the truth. "

" I think when you are an only child, parents are more protective and fearful because they've only got one of you. I was not allowed to do a lot of things that, if I'd been, say, number three, I would have. "

" Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl. "

" The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really. "

" I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that. "

" Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel it's a very honest emotion. "

" Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell. "

" I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers. "

" I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically. "

" You become sillier and more youthful as you get older, maybe, because you're over all your anxieties. "

Rosamund Pike

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" When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you. "

" I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again. "

" I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay. "

" As a woman, you feel that you shouldn't want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn't it? "

" Feminism will never reach the next stage until women stop competing with each other on the level of looks. "

" In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them. "

" I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties. "

" Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film. "

" I certainly relish the chance to play a woman who didn't have to conform in any way ever to expected behavior or desirable behavior or attractive behavior. "