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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.
John Hurt
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John Hurt
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: January 22
Died: 2017
Died: January 27
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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 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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If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.
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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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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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By the time I came to do the final ones [Harry Potter's film], I was working on something that was massively successful. There was a huge difference in indulgence and all sorts of stuff. A very big difference in peoples' attitudes. They were very pleased with themselves. In human terms, it was quite interesting to see the difference.
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