Quotes by Richard Ayoade - Page 1

I'm pretty bad at seeing new films.
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Film
Seeing
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I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.
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Talking
Terrible
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No. I really don't think I'm cool. I'm not.
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Louis Malle is maybe one of my favorite directors, but I love Tarantino.
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Directors
Tarantino
Louis
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I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.
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Anyway
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Why have a pet hate? Why should it be confined? My hate is both wide ranging and total.
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Pet
Hate
Should
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I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.
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People
Persons
Social
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To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour
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Impossible
Ridiculous
Video
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I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.
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Different
People
Thinking
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I actually prefer night shoots to days. I prefer being up. It's easier for me. I'm more of a night person.
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Easier
Prefer
Shoots
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I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.
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Hire
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The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.
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Actors
Interesting
Stories
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My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'
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Cambridge
England
Heard
Oxford
University
Brought
Universities
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I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.
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Directing
Led
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I find performing very difficult. It's difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because you could legitimately go, 'Well, why do it?'
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Disingenuous
Nervous
Performing
Good Difficult Find
Good Actor
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I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.
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People
Scripts
Stuff
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I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.
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Actors
Instinct
Very Good
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As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.
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Land
Thinking
Wish
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As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: 'Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened' is one of the funniest lines in any film.
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Lines
Time Day Never
Time Day Every Day
Carried
Funniest
Magical
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I think there's nothing worse than telling actors what to do in front of everyone, because then on the next take, everyone's waiting to see if you do that ... Everyone watches. It's just the worst thing.
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Thinking
Waiting
Watches
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I suppose I sort of like effects that have some organic elements rather than ones that are entirely generated by a computer. Just because, no matter how complex the algorithm is, it's still an algorithm.
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Computer
Effects
Elements
Algorithm
Complex
Entirely
Just Because
Suppose
Organic
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I've only ever really been in shows of friends, so I don't know exactly what happened. I think I'm incredibly cheap to hire. That can buy some traction. I'm as cheap as it's possible for an actor to be legally.
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Actor
Buy
Cheap
Possible
Exactly
Exactly What
Hire
Incredibly
Legally
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American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.
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Keys
Television
Trying
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I like Roy Orbison's video for 'I Drove All Night' because it's so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the night. I like that silliness. To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour.
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All Night
Driving
Humour
Literal
Silliness
Video
Roy
Throughout
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A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.
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Men
Funny Things
Stupid
Comedies
Funny Thing
Laughs
Reaction
Straight Man
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I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don't. When they come out well you think, Wow, I must be really great; and when they come out poorly, you think you must be terrible, but the truth is that's how any process works.
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Thinking
Trying
Writing
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The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.
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Character
Talking
Two
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The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it's the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.
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Classic
Hitchcock
Irony
Pleasure
Bomb
Table
Two People
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A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.
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Directors
Doe
Gauges
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With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.
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Littles
Sound
Variables
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Cars are good for entrances and exits. And there is something about driving that is quite cliched in a funny way. I like Roy Orbison's video for I Drove All Night because it's so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the night. I like that silliness. To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour.
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Car
Men
Night
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When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are terrible, four of them are okay and one is really good. It's hard to say what accounts for the really good one or for the terrible ones, but you end up trying to remanufacture whatever worked for the good one, like eating a tomato. I ate a tomato and the show was good, but that of course is not how it works.
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New York
Eight
Feelings
Play
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