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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!
John Hurt
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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is not literature, it is images on screen.
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I've got plenty of train memories. I was sent to school when I was eight years old in 1948 in Kent. So I had to go through London in 1948, just after the war. Many ,many strange experiences.
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Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?
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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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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
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I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
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I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.
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In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.
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The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
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I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay.
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Be true to what you want to say, or whatever style it is that you've chosen or genre you've chosen. Do it well! My criteria always has been that the piece must stand the chance of succeeding on the level it's intended to succeed on.
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