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I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing
At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.
I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.
The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father...
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.
I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.
I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.
When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.
It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.