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Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

Romola Garai

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Romola Garai
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 6
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Hong Kong SAR
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Romola Sadie Garai
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I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.
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I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.
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Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.
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I'm fundamentally a busy person I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
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Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
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When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.
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I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.
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I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.
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I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.
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I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got to say about this? Like men in war and dealing with their masculinity in conflict. I just think we've exhausted the landscape.
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The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.
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I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
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As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.
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If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.
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Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.
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The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
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Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.
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I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.
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I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.
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