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" I love being a dad. "

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" I was a young actor in my 20s, going out in Soho, having a wild time. "

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" I've never been that bothered about doing stage or television. I just love doing films. With theatre, it goes on night after night. "

" I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course. "

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" Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it. "

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" It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it? "

" I can remember, after I started doing films, my mum began going to more arthouse films. She went to see 'Edward Scissorhands' and phoned me up and said: 'What was that all about? He had scissors on his hands.' Good question. I think she should review films on Channel 4. "

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" It was so boring, and 'Dragonheart' was so unchallenging - there was no research involved or any rehearsal. So I was in my hotel room every night with no English-language TV except 'Beavis and Butt-head' at 10 o'clock every night. "

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