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What actually happened with '...

What actually happened with 'Miracle' was that someone saw me in 'Jurassic Park' and said, 'We want someone with a white beard - how about him?' I've got a round face, white hair, a white beard. I can wear half-moon glasses and waddle a little, cope with a cane, raise my hat.

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I adored my mother. I absolut...

I adored my mother. I absolutely adored her and admired her.

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David has asked me, a number ...

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.

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And there are certain things,...

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

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I like to make films about pe...

I like to make films about people who changed the lives of others and asserted human dignity.

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I think there were times when...

I think there were times when, if circumstances had developed, I might have been tempted into politics. I am a fan of Tony Blair. I think Gordon Brown is a fine man, but I think he's headed for one hell of a bloody struggle.

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'E.T.' depended absolutely on...

'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I'm very fond of, is a genius.

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I don't really like the Oscar...

I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

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I always wanted to make films...

I always wanted to make films that might change or at least focus people's views.

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Ben Kingsley was my ideal cho...

Ben Kingsley was my ideal choice for Gandhi, and he really lived up to the expectations of an international audience. I did not find any Indian actor worthy to perform the role of Gandhi in the early Eighties, though there were brilliant performers like Naseeruddin Shah in India.

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I came from a family who beli...

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man: who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

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I never want to make the kind...

I never want to make the kind of film whose impact ends when the audience leaves the cinema.

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I think Tom Paine is one of t...

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. He lived in the 18th century; as you all know, he was an Englishman who was involved in the writing of American Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution, the French Constitution, wrote the great book called 'The Rights of Man' - commercial over.

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If you are playing in 'Charle...

If you are playing in 'Charley's Aunt,' and your favourite aunt died that lunchtime, you'll still have to go on the stage and play 'Charley's Aunt.'

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I'm simply saying that heroes...

I'm simply saying that heroes are people whose activities, whose attitudes, and whose judgment you just think, 'Wow. That's good. That's right. That's real.'

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When asked what attribute he ...

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

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I believe we need heroes...we...

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

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Art is not an elitist gift fo...

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

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If you are directing, you hav...

If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

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In the late 1940s, there were...

In the late 1940s, there weren't any pop stars, and TV didn't exist.

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