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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.
Cillian Murphy
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Cillian Murphy
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 25
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I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.
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I try not to think retrospectively. It's important, as an artist, to look forward, always. I do try to take work that involves some challenge. If you approach a piece of work and you're going, Yeah, yeah, I can do that, then that's kind of a red flag.
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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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For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.
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I'm pretty adamant to do an American accent because you get it immediately.
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I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.
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I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
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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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[We were very lucky that Sean [ Ellis ] researched the film [Anthropoid ] for many years.] We sort of piggybacked on his knowledge, and he gave us a lot of materials, which we read. For me, the greatest resource was actually shooting the film in Prague.
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There's always a level where you think you can improve and do better. Certainly at the beginning... I did four years of straight theater without ever having a part in a movie, and I remember being far more nervous on a film set than I was on the stage. It took a while for that to become less so.
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I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
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