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The truth is rarely true and never simple.
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 think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back.
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You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do sometimes you don't.
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Once you've started to dig a hole, you can't get out of it.
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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.
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Elephant Man [movie] was much more difficult physically. This had a couple of days. It was quite tricky. I had my leg strapped up behind me and I am a little older now. It was all marvelous, though. He [Bong Joon-ho] is one of the most fabulous directors in the world.
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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 stopped asking a long time ago, why would you want me to play that? I'm an actor. That's what I do.
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We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say Either you can or you can't.
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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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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
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It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
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I'm very director oriented.
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The common misconception is that we create films for ourselves. And I really don't do it for myself. I get stopped in the street by people saying, Do you mind if I say this about your work? Do I mind? I'm delighted. I do it for you. It's not for me. It's my living, yes, sure.
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Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.
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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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I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the film-makers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.
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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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If you listen, you learn if you talk, you don't.
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Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.
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