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Bong Joon-ho is enormously sensitive to performance. He knows what he needs to see and that's all he needs to shoot. He is so daring. We don't do that in the west. We shoot 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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I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
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It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.
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You have to learn to cut your cloth accordingly. But it seems to be a human weakness. Once you start making a lot of money, you just join in with everyone else. It's like the banks, and we've seen what happens there.
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I don't like no confusion.
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I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
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Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
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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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I find myself more interested in producing. Not because I'm interested in the financial side of it, but just getting together the right elements to make a film, that side of production. I would not be good on the financial side. It would be a disaster from the beginning.
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When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.
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Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.
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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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Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.
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I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.
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People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.
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[Bong Joon-ho'] is quite different but technically, he is as clever as [Alfred] Hitchcock. That's saying something. In humanitarian terms, I think he is much cleverer. He is one of the best directors I've worked with. I absolutely adore working with him.
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On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel with a film.
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I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.
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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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Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
John Hurt
