“I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.”
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“I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.”
“I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.”
“When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.”
“I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.”
“Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.”
“I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.”
“People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.”
“I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.”
“I just love movies.”
“I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.”
“I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.”
“I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.”
“And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.”
“The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.”
“It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.”
“Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.”
“Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!”
“I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.”
“If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.”
“Movies are different from real life.”
“I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.”
“Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.”
“There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.”