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The medium is secondary to the stories.
Cillian Murphy
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Cillian Murphy
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 25
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I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, Please make this end.
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I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
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My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.
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I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.
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It's always nice to be challenged.
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For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.
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I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
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My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
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It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable
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The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
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I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don't think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.
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I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.
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From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.
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I think every director has a different methodology.
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It seemed to work on camera. And there's very few films - because you make a lot of films and you meet people and you work very intensely and intimately and then you're gone - but there's a few where you actually make friends, and this [The Fall] was one.
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