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" I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too. "

Domhnall Gleeson

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" I like cashew nuts. "

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" Normally, in a film with lots of twists and turns, half of them don't make sense; they're just there for their own sakes. "

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" 'Black Mirror,' I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, 'No, it has to be Black Mirror.' And it hadn't been sold to Netflix, hadn't gone abroad at that point - but it's just good work - that's all there is to it. "

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