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Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.
Paul is an awful name. I might as well be Bob.
My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.
Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.
No one I know works in the industry. No, that's not true - Liv Tyler.
In marriage, there's a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.
The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.
We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending.
I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.
I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason.
I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.
I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.
I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.
I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have.
In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.
I loved working with Peter Weir. I think he's one of the greats and will be remembered as one of the greats.
I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.
The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it's bread forever - it's Forever Bread!
I've noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted.
I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.
I don't enjoy watching action films, but I loved films like 'Rust and Bone' and 'The Beat That My Heart Skipped.'
Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.
I resist the idea of there being on-screen chemistry. I think it's something that people like to say without thinking.
I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.
I find parties difficult. I like a dinner party, but I find being at parties difficult, so I choose not to go to parties.
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers.
For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.
It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.
The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.
I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?
The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.
I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.
Doing the big budget films really makes you appreciate doing movies like Shelter. It's because this is like doing theater, you just have to hit the ground running
I did eight months of training for 'Wimbledon,' and then, by the time I finished the movie another four months later, I was like, 'That's me. I'm done with tennis.'
In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.
I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.
I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.
Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but love stops you from being able to do that.
I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more.
So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.
I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.
I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more...
I think the success of the Marvel films comes from the fact that they're made by fans. They really love those characters. When I first came out dressed as Vision, Kevin Feige nearly cried.
I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.
I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.
I got a phone call from Jon Favreau saying, 'I need the voice of a personality-less robot, and I thought of you immediately.' I thought that was the funniest thing I ever heard, so I said, 'Yes.'
But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God its fantastic.
But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.
Film used to have to be niche and find its audience in a little art house cinema, and TV had to work for everybody. And now it's kind of flipped where there's so many platforms that TV can be incredibly niche.