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You carry that through and ad...

You carry that through and adapt it to a camera lens, but you're quite right, you cannot be sure of what an audience is going to do. You don't know what's going to happen to the piece you're doing anyway. You don't know how it's going to be edited. There are a lot more unknowns in cinema. But that you have to readily accept. That's when, I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.

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It's a great relief to feel t...

It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

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Obviously, the arrogance of m...

Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.

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I've never known what I've wa...

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

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People say you never retire i...

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

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You have to learn to cut your...

You have to learn to cut your cloth accordingly. But it seems to be a human weakness. Once you start making a lot of money, you just join in with everyone else. It's like the banks, and we've seen what happens there.

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Anything which retains intere...

Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?

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Developing characters is a co...

Developing characters is a collective process, on one hand; it's an individual process on the other. The truth is rarely pure and never simple, as dear Oscar Wilde would say. A great of it, of course, is, you collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

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I never quite understand why ...

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio...

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Once you've started to dig a ...

Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.

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My fathers a clergyman, and h...

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

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I'm not accustomed to doing f...

I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script. There are certain people that are auteurs, and you accept them regardless of whether you see a script or not. But Spielberg is not an auteur.

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I think an actor is very like...

I think an actor is very like a sportsman. You have periods where you're in terrific form. Everything you touch seems to work, and come right. And other times, when you're working really hard, it's okay, but it isn't scintillating.

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I think you can fan the flame...

I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's not taught to be a mathematician. He either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in its beauty as well.

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I think I'd rather do [acting...

I think I'd rather do [acting] in the real place. It requires different things, working with green screen, but its an imaginative exercise anyway, the whole business of acting, so it just gives you a bit more to feed the imagination. Unless it's really silly, just two of you stuck in a space with nothing but green screen that's got to be pretty difficult.

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I loathed school. I don't hav...

I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!

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A mathematician either has a ...

A mathematician either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in its beauty as well. I don't think that's something that you learn at school. I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

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I think one of the things tha...

I think one of the things that is important, for me, though a lot of people would disagree with me, is that you be founded in theater so that you understand what an audience is, what kind of an animal it is and how to play with it. How to have fun with it, how to sympathize with it, all the things that an audience is. I don't think you're going to find that out unless you do theater.

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You collect as much informati...

You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

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Film has changed vastly in th...

Film has changed vastly in the time that I've been an actor, and it's, I think, very much for the better. I think there are just magnificent films now, and they're blossoming in the way that the novel did years ago.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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