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" I never want to overstay my welcome for any character. I would rather people are excited by the ideas a character generates in them rather than feeling bored and wishing he would just go away. "

Rupert Friend

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Ideas

People

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" The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing. "

" 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. "

" I got the 'I don't want the normal job' bug. At home, we have countless career advisors who would tell us to work in department stores and stay below the bar and not overreach our grasp. I didn't believe any of them. "

" There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision. "

" The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice. "

" I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz. "

" I don't do glamorous things. "

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Glamorous

" 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. "

" One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.' "

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Crusade

Cinema

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

" I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved. "

" Wood is weirdly a big passion of mine. I really love it, all the way from trees to a finished table. The fact that it was alive and that each piece is different. "

" I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa. "

" 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. "

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

" The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged. "

" Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic. "

" Sport is not my thing. "

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Thing

Sport

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

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

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Fire

Guns

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

" I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart. "

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

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Flag

" I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you. "