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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving. "

" I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. "

" I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind. "

" 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. "

" It might look like some incredibly complicated map to get from English period films to American action anti-heroes, but it really is just about not having a plan. "

" 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. "

" I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to British politics is almost nonexistent. "

" 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. "

" I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules. "

" I don't do glamorous things. "

" 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 have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing. "

" I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could! "

" I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row. "

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

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

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

" All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing. "

" 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. "

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

" It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies. "