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" I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind, strong shadows, looking slightly off-camera. "

Julian Barratt

Camera

Poetry

Strong

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Julian Barratt

About

Want

" I can act with either eye, but you've got to be twice as good as an actor to act with one eye. You need to put all your emotions just through one eye and really punch it out of that eye. I found it quite difficult to do at first, and then I found a technique that allowed me to act with one eye, which I patented. "

Julian Barratt

Eye

Need

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Julian Barratt

Person

Way

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Julian Barratt

Stand-Up

Anymore

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Julian Barratt

Sport

Anything