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" If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then. "

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" I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it. "

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" I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids. "

" I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP. "

" I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there. "

" I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world. "

" My grandfather, who is English, was a member of a gentleman's club called the Caledonian, which you can only be a member of if you have Scottish lineage. "

" I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind. "

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" Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities. "

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

" If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. "