“People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.”
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A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.
I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.