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The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.

Ben Wheatley

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Ben Wheatley
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: January 1
Director
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I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.
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If an actor commits properly to a role, they do a bit mad during a shoot. If they're going to do that, they should balance themselves by doing a role as a yoga teacher.
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You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
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Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.
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The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.
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It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.
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The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.
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Sometimes my scripts get so dissolved, and they're so different from when I wrote them originally, that I find it hard to find what I wrote in it.
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